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Flow past model wings is experimentally investigated in a subsonic wind tunnel at large angles of attack at which the laminar boundary layer separates near the leading edge of the wing (flow stall). The object of the study was the flow structure within the separation zone. The carbon-oil visualization of surface streamlines used in the experiments showed that in the separation zone there exist one or more pairs of large-scale vortices rotating in the wing plane. Certain general properties of the vortex structures in the separation zone are found to exist, whereas the flow patterns may differ depending on the model aspect ratio, the yaw angle, and other factors.
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Original Russian Text © B.Yu. Zanin, I.D. Zverkov, V.V. Kozlov, A.M. Pavlenko, 2008, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2008, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 113–120.
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Zanin, B.Y., Zverkov, I.D., Kozlov, V.V. et al. Vortex structure of separated flows on model wings at low freestream velocities. Fluid Dyn 43, 938–944 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462808060148
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