Suction vortices and spiral breakdown in numerical simulations of tornado-like vortices

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 109-114

  Fiedler, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical simulation; Tornado

Indexed keywords

NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TORNADO; VORTICITY;

EID: 67849083275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.217     Document Type: Article

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