Recovery of energy from leading- and trailing-edge vortices in tandem-airfoil configurations

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-211

  Rival, D ^a,b,c   Hass, G ^a,b,d   Tropea, C ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Fluid Mechanics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d ALSTOM SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIRFOILS; DRAG; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SEPARATION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

AERODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; AIRFOIL CONFIGURATION; INDUCED SEPARATION; INSTANTANEOUS VALUE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; RECOVERY OF ENERGIES; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79551679391     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.C031062     Document Type: Article

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