Decay of wake vortices of large aircraft

AIAA Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1671-1679

  Sarpkaya, Turgut ^a,b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001526210     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.570     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Hallock, J. N., "Aircraft Wake Vortices: An Assessment of the Current Situation," U.S. Dept. of Transportation, DOT-FAA-RD-90-20, DOT-VNTSC-FAA-90-6, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, DC, May 1991.
2. Greene, G. C., Dunham, R. E., Jr., Burnham, D. C., Hallock, J. N., and Rossow, V. J., "Wake Vortex Research: Lessons Learned," Proceedings of the Aircraft Wake Vortices Conference, DOT/FAA/SD-92/1.1, U.S. Dept. of Transportation Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA, 1992, pp. 2-1-2-13.
3. "FAA International Wake Vortex Symposium," DOT/FAA/SD/92-1, Federal Aviation Agency, Washington, DC, July 1991.
4. MacCready, P. B., Jr., "An Assessment of Dominant Mechanisms in Vortex-Wake Decay," Aircraft Wake Turbulence and Its Detection, 1st ed., Plenum, New York, 1971, pp. 289-304.
5. "The Characterization and Modification of Wakes from Lifting Vehicles in Fluids," CP-584, AGARD, May 1996.
6. Sarpkaya, T., "Trailing Vortices in Homogeneous and Density Stratified Media," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 136, Nov. 1983, pp. 85-109.
7. Tombach, I., "Observations of Atmospheric Effects of Vortex Wake Behavior," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 10, No. 11, 1973, pp. 641-647.
8. Sarpkaya, T., and Daly, J. J., "Effect of Ambient Turbulence on Trailing Vortices," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 26, No. 6, 1987, pp. 399-404.
9. Liu, H.-T., "Effects of Ambient Turbulence on the Decay of a Trailing Vortex Wake," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1992, pp. 255-263.
10. Crow, S. C., and Bate, E. R., "Lifespan of Trailing Vortices in a Turbulent Atmosphere," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 13, No. 7, 1976, pp. 476-482.
11. Crow, S. C., "Stability Theory for a Pair of Trailing Vortices," AIAA Journal, Vol. 8, No. 12, 1970, pp. 2172-2179.
12. Han, J., Lin, Y.-L., Schowalter, D. G., Arya, S. P., and Proctor, F. H., "Large-Eddy Simulation of Aircraft Wake Vortices: Atmospheric Turbulence Effects," 12th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence (Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada), American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 1997, pp. 237, 238.
13. Zak, J. A., and Rogers, W. G., Jr., "Documentation of Atmospheric Conditions During Observed Rising Aircraft Wakes," NASA CR-4767, April 1997.
14. Campbell, S. D., Dasey, T. J., Freehart, R. E., Heinrichs, R. M., Matthews, M. P., Perras, G. H., and Rowe, G. S., "Wake Vortex Field Measurement Program at Memphis, TN Data Guide," Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Project Rept. NASA/L-2, Lexington, MA, Jan 1997 (available to the public through the NTI Service, Springfield, VA 22161).
15. Batchelor, G. K., "Axial Flow in Trailing Line Vortices," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 20, Dec. 1964, pp. 645-658.
16. " Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 33A, June 1973, pp. 491-508.
17. Thompson, D. H., "Experimental Study of Axial Flow in Wing Tip Vortices," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 12, No. 11, 1975, pp. 910, 911.
18. Uberoi, M. S., Shivamoggi, B. K., and Chen, S., "Axial Flow in Trailing Line Vortices," Purdue Univ., Project Squid TR UC-2-PU, Lafayette, IN, July 1978.
19. Bandyopadhyay, P. R., Stead, D. J., and Ash, R. L., "Organized Nature of a Turbulent Trailing Vortex," AIAA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 10, 1991, pp. 1627-1633.
20. Ragab, S. A., and Sreedhar, M. K., "Numerical Simulation of Vortices with Axial Velocity Deficits," Physics of Fluids A, Vol. 7, March 1995, pp. 549-558.
21. Risso, F. R., Corjon, A., and Stoessel, A., "Direct Numerical Simulations of Wake Vortices in Intense Homogeneous Turbulence," AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 6, 1997, pp. 1030-1040.
22. Sarpkaya, T., "Three-Dimensional Interactions of Vortices with a Free Surface," AIAA Paper 92-0059, Jan. 1992.
23. Sarpkaya, T., "Interaction of a Turbulent Vortex with a Free Surface," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Vol. 1, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1992, pp. 163-174.
24. Sarpkaya, T., "Vorticity, Free Surface, and Surfactants," Annual Review of Fluids Mechanics, Vol. 28, 1996, pp. 83-128.
25. Heinrichs, R. M., and Dasey, T. J., "Analysis of Circulation Data from a Wake Vortex Lidar," AIAA Paper 97-0059, Jan. 1997.
26. Hinton, D. A., "Aircraft Vortex Spacing System (AVOSS) Conceptual Design," NASA TM-110184, Aug. 1995.
27. Perry, R. B., Hinton, D. A., and Stuever, R. A., "NASA Wake Vortex Research for Aircraft Spacing," AIAA Paper 97-0057, Jan. 1997.
28. Proctor, F. H., "Numerical Simulation of Wake Vortices Measured During the Idaho Falls and Memphis Field Programs," AIAA Paper 96-2496, June 1996.
29. Proctor, F. H., Hinton, D. A., Han, J., Schowalter, D. G., and Lin, Y.-L., "Two-Dimensional Wake Vortex Simulations in the Atmosphere: Preliminary Sensitivity Studies," AIAA Paper 97-0056, Jan. 1997.
30. Vicroy, D., Brandon, J., Greene, G., Rivers, R., Shah, G., Stewart, E., and Stuever, R., "Characterizing the Hazard of a Wake Vortex Encounter," AIAA Paper 97-0055, Jan. 1997.
31. Longuet-Higgins, M. S., and Cokelet, E. L., "The Deformation of Steep Surface Waves on Water. I. A Numerical Method of Computation," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 350, July 1976, pp. 1-26.
32. Hallock, J. N., and Burnham, D. C., "Decay Characteristics of Wake Vortices from Jet Transport Aircraft," AIAA Paper 97-0060, Jan. 1997.
33. Owen, P. R., "The Decay of a Turbulent Trailing Vortex," Aeronautical Quarterly, Vol. 21, Feb. 1970, pp. 69-78.
34. Lezius, D. K., "Water Tank Study of the Decay of Trailing Vortices," AIAA Journal. Vol. 12, No. 8, 1974, pp. 1065-1071.
35. Greene, G. C., "An Approximate Model of Vortex Decay in the Atmosphere," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 23, No. 7, 1986, pp. 566-573.
36. Traugott, S. C., "Influence of Solid-Body Rotation on Screen-Produced Turbulence," NACA TN-4135, April 1958.
37. Briggs, D. C., "Heat Transfer in Rotating Turbulent Pipe Flow," Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford Univ., TR 45, Stanford, CA, May 1959.
38. Hopfinger, E. J., Browand, F. K., and Gage, Y., "Turbulence and Waves in a Rotating Tank," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 125, Dec. 1982, pp. 505-534.
39. Polifke, W., and Shtilman, L., "The Dynamics of Helical Decaying Turbulence," Physics of Fluids A, Vol. 1, No. 12, 1989, pp. 2025-2033.