Vortex generating device
US4312236A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 28, 1979 |
| Grant date | Jan 26, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 28, 1999 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01F1/32
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A narrow generator plate (10) is immersed parallel to the direction of flow of a fluid stream (14) for generating Karman vortices. In its various embodiments the generator plate (10) is provided with surface disruption (52) for generating boundary-layer turbulence in the fluid stream in order to eliminate the occurrence of a boundary-layer transition region which would otherwise occur for a range of fluid flow velocities of interest.
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