Some Effects of Shed Vortices on the Flow Fields around Stabilizing Tail Surfaces

摘要

A brief study is made of the effects of vortices shed primarily from bodies on the flow angularities in the regions of stabilizing tail surfaces. The results generally show a rather large adverse effect of such flow fields on the tail loads and tail-load distributions. The results further indicate that, for some conditions, an oscillatory characteristic of vortex flows exists and this may be conducive to tail buffeting. (Author)