Numerical simulation of unsteady low-reynolds-number separated flows over airfoils

28th Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Tatineni, Mahidhar ^a   Zhong, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG; FLOW FIELDS; FLUID DYNAMICS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTEX SHEDDING;

EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; LIFT AND DRAG COEFFICIENTS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SEPARATED BOUNDARY LAYERS; TOLLMIEN-SCHLICHTING INSTABILITY;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 84964294625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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