Low-Reynolds-Number Airfoils

1983/01/01 by P B S Lissaman, P. B. S. Lissaman · 822 citations
Engineering · Mathematics · #Aerospace engineering #Airfoil #Computer science #Engineering #Field (mathematics) #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows #Fluid mechanics #Mathematics #Mechanics #Physics #Reynolds number #Scale (ratio) #Statistical physics #Turbulence

paper · doi:10.1146/annurev.fl.15.010183.001255

published in Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 15(1), 223-239 (Annual Reviews)

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Abstract

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