Lift and the leading-edge vortex

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 720, Issue , 2013, Pages 280-313

  Pitt Ford, C W ^a   Babinsky, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

vortex dynamics; vortex flows

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ATTACK; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; POTENTIAL FLOW; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WINGS;

DYE FLOW-VISUALIZATION; FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATIONS; KELVIN'S CIRCULATION THEOREM; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; POTENTIAL FLOW MODEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL FLOW; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW MODELING; POTENTIAL FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISUALIZATION; VORTEX FLOW; WAKE;

EID: 84875042311     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2013.28     Document Type: Article

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