Minimally intrusive wingtip vortex wake mitigation using microvane arrays

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PATENT NO 9896192
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13324537

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An airfoil tip vortex mitigation arrangement comprising one or more flow directors configured and positioned to re-direct freestream air over a low pressure surface of an airfoil in such a way as to displace and weaken a main tip vortex generated at a tip of the airfoil.

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LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION6801 ROCKLEDGE DRIVE BETHESDA MD 20817

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Charlton, Eric F Grapevine, US 4 19
Domel, Neal D Aledo, US 8 37
Miller, Daniel N Bainbridge Island, US 55 784

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