The Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering,

December 10–14, 2013, Chennai, India

DESIGN OF VORTEX GENERATORS FOR LIGHT TRANSPORT

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Assosciate Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, P. B. College of Engineering, Chennai, TN,
India, raju.mit@gmail.com
2
Assosciate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai, TN,
India, mparams@annauniv.edu
3
Student, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, P. B. College of Engineering, Chennai, TN, India,
sathya28sathyanarayanan@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

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Introduction

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Proc. of the 8th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering – Nagesh R. Iyer, Prem Krishna, S. Selvi Rajan and P. Harikrishna (eds)
Copyright c 2013 APCWE-VIII. All rights reserved. Published by Research Publishing, Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-07-8011-1
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