Lift augmentation for two pitching and plunging airfoils in tandem formation

46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rival, D ^a   Dumond, J ^a,b   Trop, C ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; VORTEX FLOW;

AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PARAMETER SPACES; PLUNGING AIRFOIL; REDUCED FREQUENCY; SUCTION SURFACES; TIME-RESOLVED; UNSTEADY RANS;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 78149454646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-1441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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