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Incipient separation boundary: confirmation of an empirical criterion by Navier-Stokes solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

N. Qin*
Affiliation:
College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, UK

Abstract

A non-linear methodology based on high resolution Navier-Stokes solutions has been proposed to predict incipient separation boundaries. Comparison has been made between the prediction and an empirical criterion based on vast experimental data.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1996 

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