Assessment of wake-vortex encounter probabilities for crosswind departure scenarios

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 812-822

  Holzapfel, Frank ^a   Kladetzke, Jan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; WAKES;

ADVANCED SCENARIOS; AIRCRAFT SEPARATION; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; ENCOUNTER PROBABILITY; FRANKFURT AIRPORT; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; SCENARIOS SIMULATIONS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 79957939416     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.C000236     Document Type: Article

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