The turbulent decay of trailing vortex pairs in stably stratified environments

Aerospace Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 95-108

  Holzäpfel, Frank ^a   Gerz, Thomas ^a   Baumann, Robert ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent structures; Numerical simulation; Short wave instability; Stable stratification; Turbulence; Wake vortices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035580476     PISSN: 12709638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1270-9638(00)01090-7     Document Type: Article

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