Rotating flying disks and formation of trailing vortices

18th Applied Aerodynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Higuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Goto, Yuichiro ^a   Hiramoto, Riho ^a   Meisel, Ingo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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