Detrimental effects of almost immeasurably small free-stream nonuniformities generated by wind tunnel screens

35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 1-20

  Watmuff, Jonathan H ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; VORTEX FLOW;

BLASIUS BOUNDARY LAYER; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; KLEBANOFF MODES; NON-UNIFORMITIES; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SPANWISE VARIATIONS; STREAMWISE VORTICES;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84983201959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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