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Some Experiments with Vortex Breakdown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

M. V. Lowson
M. V. Lowson*
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Formerly Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Southampton, now Wyle, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
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Summary

Water tunnel flow visualisation experiments on a slender delta wing have revealed some new phenomena connected with vortex breakdown. Vortex breakdown hysteresis has been found, there being two steady flow states at some incidences, one with breakdown on the wing and one without. The formation of vortex breakdown has been studied and found to be a non-axisymmetric instability. It is suggested that pressure gradient plays a more general part in the phenomenon than has been thought hitherto.

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Technical Notes
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 68 , Issue 641 , May 1964 , pp. 343 - 346
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1964

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