Effects of compressibility, pitch rate, and Reynolds number on unsteady incipient leading-edge boundary layer separation over a pitching airfoil

DOI10.1017/S0022112096001450zbMath0875.76188OpenAlexW2012654790MaRDI QIDQ4714315

Doyle D. Knight, P. Ghosh Choudhuri

Publication date: 13 May 1997

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112096001450

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) General aerodynamics and subsonic flows (76G25) Boundary-layer theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N20)

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Cites Work

• The spontaneous generation of the singularity in a separating laminar boundary layer
• Generation of Body-Fitted Coordinates Using Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations

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