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Vortex formation and flow separation: the beauty and the beast in aerodynamics

Part of: RAeS Lanchester Lecture Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

A. Elsenaar
A. Elsenaar*
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Airbus Large Aircraft Division, Toulouse, France
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Ladies and gentlemen, it is an honour and a great pleasure to present this Lanchester Memorial Lecture. I thank the Royal Aeronautical Society and its Aerodynamic Committee for inviting me. In preparing this lecture I greatly enjoyed the added significance of presenting it in the historical context set by Lanchester. But the real pleasure is to be here among many good friends with whom I worked together for shorter or longer periods.

“A body that in its motion through a fluid does not give rise to a surface of discontinuity.” So Lanchester defined a ‘ streamline body’ in his standard work Aerodynamics. With ‘ discontinuity’ the boundary is meant between the outer flow and the dead water region formed by fluid that departs from the surface as illustrated nicely in Fig. 1 for the flow around a cylinder.

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The 2000 Lanchester lecture
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 104 , Issue 1042 , December 2000 , pp. 615 - 633
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 2000 

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