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Cambered valve leaflets that maximize initial rate of closure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

E. O. Tuck ,
A. Helfgott  and
R. W. Yeung
E. O. Tuck
Affiliation:
University of Adelaide, South Australia 5001
A. Helfgott
Affiliation:
Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia 5042
R. W. Yeung
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Camber distributions are chosen for airfoils of zero thickness that maximize the angular velocity induced by a sudden decrease in free-stream velocity. Those optimal shapes that are in equilibrium in steady forward flow are also neutrally stable in that position.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 121 , August 1982 , pp. 517 - 529
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© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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