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Some experimental results of the effect of a streamwise vortex on a two-dimensional wing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

M. H. Patel  and
Q. J. Hancock
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A problem of some practical importance concerns the interference between a wing surface in a free stream and a nearby streamwise vortex. This situation can arise for example, either in a helicopter rotor system, or when concentrated vortices, which are shed from a fuselage nose or from forward canard controls, interfere with an aft lifting surface.

An approximate non-linear analytical study is described in Ref. 1 in which the three-dimensional loading on a two-dimensional non-swept wing underneath a streamwise line vortex in low speed flow (as shown in Fig. 1) is deduced. Since publication of Ref. 1 a number of linearised theoretical studies have come to light.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 78 , Issue 760 , April 1974 , pp. 151 - 155
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1974 

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