How Does a Gurney flap enhance the aerodynamics forces?

AIAA Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2710-2714

  Niu, Yang Yao ^a,c   Hsu, Ting Shiu ^a   Hsieh, C T ^b   Chang, C C ^b   Chu, C C ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOIL CHORD; COURANT-FRIEDRICHS-LEWY; FINITE BODIES; FLUID ELEMENT; GURNEY FLAPS; NUMERICAL STABILITIES; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; MACH NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 78650403906     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.J050437     Document Type: Article

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