Method for accelerating the destruction of aircraft wake vortices

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 398-404

  Rennich, Steven C ^a,b   Lele, Sanjiva K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; VORTEX SHEDDING; WAKES;

WAKE VORTEX HAZARDS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 0032686479     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.2444     Document Type: Article

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