Scientists discover second purpose for vortex generators
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Vortex Generator - an overview
I know that canards in airplanes are good for reducing the downwash velocity the wings generate. How about having a T-tail instead of a canard, would that be as affective in reducing
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Review of research on low-profile vortex generators to control boundary-layer separation - ScienceDirect
The main flow structures generated by a trapezoidal vortex generator.
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Vortex Generator - an overview
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Memory Metals are Shaping the Evolution of Aviation - NASA
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Vortex Generator - an overview
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Spatially and spectrally resolved orbital angular momentum interactions in plasmonic vortex generators
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