An airfoil tip vortex mitigation arrangement comprising one or more flow directors configured and positioned to re-direct freestream air over a low pressure surface of an airfoil in such a way as to displace and weaken a main tip vortex generated at a tip of the airfoil.
Minimally intrusive wingtip vortex wake mitigation using microvane arrays
2018-02-20
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge |
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