Vortex formation of plunging flat plates

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rausch, Jonathan ^a   Altman, Aaron ^a  

^a University of Dayton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON COMPOSITES; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; DIGITAL PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; DIRECT FORCE MEASUREMENTS; FLAPPING WING FLIGHT; FLAT PLATE; FORMATION PARAMETER; FORMATION TIME; FREE-STREAM; MAXIMUM VALUES; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; PITCH ANGLE; PLATE VELOCITY; PREFERENTIAL GROWTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCALING PARAMETER; SIMPLIFIED MODE; STEADY STATE; SYMMETRIC VORTEX; UNSTEADY VORTICES; VELOCITY FIELD; VELOCITY PROFILES; VORTEX CIRCULATION; VORTEX FORMATION; VORTEX RINGS;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; DRAG; FLOW VISUALIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 78549249502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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