Stability of helical tip vortices in a rotor far wake

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 576, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-25

  Okulov, V L ^a,b   Sorensen J N ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b KUTATELADZE INSTITUTE OF THERMOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; WAKES;

HELICAL VORTEX; VORTICITY DISTRIBUTION;

VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW FIELDS; MECHANICAL STABILITY; ROTORS; TURBOMACHINE BLADES; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; RADIAL FLOW; STABILITY ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAKE;

EID: 34447252877     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006004228     Document Type: Article

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