Spatial characteristics of the unsteady differential pressures on 16% F/A-18 vertical tails

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Moses, Robert W ^a   Ashley, Holt ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ANGLE OF ATTACK INDICATORS; BOMBERS; BUFFETING; NASA; SOFTWARE TESTING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND TUNNELS;

AEROELASTIC PHENOMENON; CROSS-SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; HIGH PERFORMANCE AIRCRAFTS; LEADING EDGE EXTENSION; NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSONIC DYNAMICS TUNNELS;

SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84983160360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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