A quantitative study of the lift-enhancing flow field generated by an airfoil with a Gurney flap

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. Advisor: Ellen K. Longmire. 1 computer file (PDF); xv, 180 pages, appendices A-C.

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