An experimental study of the flow-field around an apollo capsule at low speed

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Wang, Frank Y ^a   Karatekin, Özgür ^a   Charbonnier, Jean Marc ^a  

^a VON KARMAN INSTITUTE FOR FLUID DYNAMICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

FLOW FEATURES; HOT WIRE MEASUREMENTS; LOW SPEED; STREAMWISE VORTICES; VORTEX RING STRUCTURES;

FLOW FIELDS;

EID: 84983179850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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