Dual leading-edge vortex structure for flow over a simplified butterfly model

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1285-1292

  Hu, Y ^a   Wang, J J ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXIAL VELOCITY; BUTTERFLY MODEL; DYE VISUALIZATION; EXTREME VALUE; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SUCTION SIDE; ULYSSES; VORTEX CORES; WING CONFIGURATIONS;

VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISUALIZATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79959545018     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-010-0990-1     Document Type: Article

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