Investigation and minimization of upsweep drag of aft-loading military transporters with tail strakes

28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ronzheimer, Arno ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b Transport Aircraft Branch   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRAG; VORTEX FLOW;

AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATIONS; AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE; CFD ANALYSIS; CFD BASED OPTIMIZATIONS; HIGH-FIDELITY; OPTIMIZED CONFIGURATION; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

FUSELAGES;

EID: 78649527170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-4365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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