Parametric study of vortices shed from airfoil vortex generators

AIAA Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2185-2195

  Wendt, Bruce J ^a,b  

^a Modern Technologies Corp   (United States)

^b Aerospace Propulsion Division   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFOILS; ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY LAYERS; KINEMATICS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY;

AIRFOIL GEOMETRY; LAMB VORTEX; PRANDTL'S RELATIONSHIP; VORTEX GENERATORS (VG);

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 9744240933     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.3672     Document Type: Article

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