Active vortical flow control for alleviation of twin-tail buffet of generic fighter aircraft

38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Sheta, Essam F ^a   Harrand, Vincent J ^a   Huttsell, Lawrence J ^b  

^a CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (FORMING); FLOW CONTROL; SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT;

ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL; BENDING DEFLECTION; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; EXCITATION PARAMETERS; LEADING-EDGE VORTICES; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; SPANWISE BLOWING; VERTICAL FLOWS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 85085776498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2000-906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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