Delay of stall by small amplitude airfoil oscillations at low Reynolds numbers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Cleaver, D J ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Gursul, I ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STROUHAL NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PEAK TO PEAK AMPLITUDES; PHASE-AVERAGED FLOW; SMALL AMPLITUDE; STRONG INTERACTION; TIME-AVERAGED FLOW;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 78549266467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2009-392     Document Type: Conference Paper

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