A single element wing in ground effect; comparisons of experiments and computation

39th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Zerihan, Jonathan ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GROUND EFFECT; WAKES; WALL FLOW; WINGS;

AERO-DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; GROUND BOUNDARY LAYERS; ONE-EQUATION MODEL; SPALART-ALLMARAS MODEL; TWO-EQUATION MODEL; WING IN GROUND EFFECT;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 85088760497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-423     Document Type: Conference Paper

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