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Longitudinal vortex control — techniques and applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D.M. Bushnell*
Affiliation:
NASA Langley Research Center

Abstract

Longitudinal vortices have tremendous practical utility for flow control (control by vortices) and in some cases have exhibited tremendous potential for causing harm if uncontrolled (i.e. control of vortices is required). Vortex control has thus far been carried out via multitudinous approaches in an empirical fashion, aided by the essentially inviscid nature of much of longitudinal vortex behaviour. Further refinement and several applications of vortex flow control require knowledge regarding the detailed flow physics of longitudinal vortices such as transition, transitional flow regimes, turbulence structure and modelling, and interaction with shock waves, other vortices and surfaces. This paper summarises vortex control applications and extant techniques for the control of longitudinal vortices produced by bodies, leading edges, tips, and intersections.

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Type
The 32nd Lanchester Lecture
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1992 

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