High-order accurate simulations of unsteady flow past plunging and pitching airfoils

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 236-248

  Liang, Chunlei ^a   Ou, Kui ^b   Premasuthan, Sachin ^b   Jameson, Antony ^b   Wang, Z J ^c  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^c Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro Air Vehicle; Pitching; Plunging; Spectral difference method

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINE STRUCTURES; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH-ORDER; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; PITCHING; PITCHING AIRFOILS; PLUNGING; PLUNGING AIRFOIL; SD METHOD; SPECTRAL DIFFERENCES; THIRD-ORDER; VORTEX SHEDDING PATTERNS;

AERODYNAMICS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); PHOTOGRAPHY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; UNMANNED VEHICLES; UNSTEADY FLOW; WAKES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 78549293553     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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