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I am an Aerospace Engineer with specialties in flutter, fluid structure interactions, and the use of CFD in a production environment. My dissertation shows how to improve the state-of-the-art unsteady CFD performance by 2 orders of magnitude. I am an engineer, a pilot, a marksman, a husband, and a dad.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Report: Low Reynolds Number Airfoils

Low Reynolds Number Airfoils

Charles O’Neill
November 30, 2001



Low Reynolds number flows concern flows with a small ratio of inertial to viscous forces. Laminar flow dominates this flow region. Low Reynolds number flight is the most common (birds, insects...) yet it proves difficult and inefficient in human controlled flight. This paper discusses and shows some characteristics of low Reynolds number flows.

Laminar Separation Bubble: From Reference 5


The short paper is available here.
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