Characterization of aircraft wake vortices by airborne coherent doppler lidar

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 799-805

  Rahm, Stephan ^a   Smalikho, Igor ^a   Köpp, Friedrich ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DATA ACQUISITION; OPTICAL RADAR; SCANNING; WAKES;

FLIGHT STRATEGIES; PORTSIDE WING; SMOKE GENERATOR; WAKE-VORTEX GENERATION;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 34547209235     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.24401     Document Type: Article

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