Assessment of sting effect on X-31 aircraft model using CFD

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jirásek, Adam ^a   Cummings, Russell M ^a  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRCRAFT; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

CFD ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION; PITCHING MOMENT COEFFICIENTS; PITCHING MOMENTS; TIME DEPENDENT; VORTICAL STRUCTURES; WIND TUNNEL MODELING; WIND-TUNNEL DATA;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 78649857261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2010-1040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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