Flow quality issues for large wind tunnels

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 1-14

  Reshotko, Eli ^a   Saric, William S ^b   Nagib, Hassan M ^c  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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