Release Height and Far-Field Limits of Lagrangian Aerial Spray Models

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 977-983

  Teske, M E ^a   Thistle, H W ^b  

^a Continuum Dynamics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial application; Drift; Far field predictions; Ground effect; Lagrangian; Vortex decay

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; DEPOSITION; WIND EFFECTS;

AERIAL SPRAY;

SPRAYING;

DEPOSITION; DISPERSION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SPRAYING; VORTEX;

EID: 0242318947     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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