Short-wave cooperative instabilities in representative aircraft vortices

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1366-1378

  Fabre, David ^a   Jacquin, Laurent ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VELOCITY; WAKES; WAVES;

AIRCRAFT WAKES; BROADBAND SPECTRUM; ELLIPTICAL INSTABILITY THEORY; LAMB-OSEEN (GAUSSIAN) VORTICES;

VORTEX FLOW;

AIRCRAFT; PHYSICS; STABILITY; VORTEX;

EID: 2442647525     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1686951     Document Type: Article

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