Boundary layer trips on airfoils at low reynolds numbers

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Lyon, Christopher A ^a   Selig, Michael S ^a   Broeren, Andy P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA VISUALIZATION; DRAG; HYPERSONIC FLOW; LAMINAR FLOW; LOCATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

LAMINAR SEPARATION BUBBLE; LAMINAR SEPARATIONS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE CATEGORIES;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 84982319007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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