Numerical study of wake vortex decay and descent in homogeneous atmospheric turbulence

AIAA journal

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 643-656

  Han, Jongil ^a   Lin, Yuh Lang ^a   Arya, S Pal ^a   Proctor, Fred H ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

VORTEX CIRCULATION; WAKE VORTEX DECAY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 0033876539     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1006     Document Type: Article

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