Passive flow control by membrane wings for aerodynamic benefit Topics in Flow Control. Guest editors J.P. Bonnet and L. Cattafesta

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Timpe, Amory ^a   Zhang, Zheng ^b   Hubner, James ^b   Ukeiley, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC BENEFITS; AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; AERODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY; CHORD-BASED REYNOLDS NUMBER; DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; MEMBRANE DEFLECTIONS; PASSIVE FLOW CONTROL; TIME-RESOLVED PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY;

AERODYNAMICS; FLEXIBLE WINGS; FLOW CONTROL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIGID WINGS; VELOCITY;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84880155713     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-013-1471-0     Document Type: Article

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