Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Details
Patent
1987-11-05
1988-11-22
Barefoot, Galen
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Details
244 53R, 23926519, B64C 138
Patent
active
047860162
ABSTRACT:
A casing surrounding a fluid stream over which an unbounded fluid flows in a downstream direction has a plurality of alternating, adjoining troughs and ridges in its external surface, extending in the downstream direction to a thin trailing edge of the casing, which will thereby have a wave-like shape.
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Paterson Robert W.
Presz, Jr. Walter M.
Werle Michael J.
Barefoot Galen
Fiorito L. M.
Revis Stephen E.
United Technologies Corporation
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