Performance of an RNG based turbulence model for single and multi-element airfoil computations

34th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages

  Lall, Vivek ^a   Papadakis, Michael ^a   Greathouse, James ^a  

^a Wichita State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTATION THEORY; GROUP THEORY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VISCOSITY;

ALGEBRAIC TURBULENCE MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; MULTI ELEMENT AIRFOILS; NAVIER-STOKES SOLVER; RENORMALIZATION GROUP THEORY; TURBULENT VISCOSITY;

AIRFOILS;

EID: 85085407663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1996-164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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