Analogue/digital wind tunnel testing of active low momentum flow control on single and multi-component airfoil systems at high lift

40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Lewington, Neil P ^a   Peake, David J ^a   Henry, Frank S ^a   Singh, Chris ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; AIRFOILS; ANGLE OF ATTACK; ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; FIXED WINGS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW CONTROL; HYPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; WIND TUNNELS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER CONTROL; LINEAR EXTENSIONS; LOW-MOMENTUM FLOWS; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL; MULTI ELEMENT AIRFOILS; ROTARY WING AIRCRAFTS; VORTEX GENERATORS; WIND-TUNNEL TESTING;

LOW ASPECT RATIO WINGS;

EID: 85088758333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2002-303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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