Experimental Investigation of the Characteristics of the Flow around an Elliptic Cylinder in the Presence of a Tripping Wire


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  • Receive Date: 15 May 2017
  • Revise Date: 22 February 2023
  • Accept Date: 19 September 2018
  • Publish Date: 20 March 2017