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bluff body

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bluff body [¦bləf ¦bäd·ē]
(aerospace engineering)
A body having a broad, flattened front, as in some reentry vehicles.


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After presenting the physical aspects of the motion of a viscous fluid and the method of eigenfunction expansions, he presents sections on steady planar flows, steady three-dimensional flows, and unsteady flows, concluding with a section on external flows that includes chapters on external flows past bodies, planar bluff body flows at low Reynolds numbers, and low Reynolds number flows past streamlined bodies.
00 Hardcover TA357 The 17 papers in the 2008 volume of the respected annual series review multiscale models of gas-solid fluidized beds, tsunami simulation techniques, MRI applications in fluid mechanics, high- speed imaging of drops and bubbles, and control methods for flow over a bluff body.
 
 
 
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