Numerical simulation of wake vortices of crop spraying aircraft close to the ground

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-64

  Zhang, Bin ^a,b,c   Tang, Qing ^b,c   Chen, Li ping ^b,c   Xu, Min ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture   (China)

^c BEIJING RESEARCH CENTER OF INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT FOR AGRICULTURE   (China)

Author keywords

Aerial application; Computational fluid dynamics; Crosswind; Spray drift; Wake vortices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GROUND EFFECT; METEOROLOGY; VELOCITY; WAKES;

AERIAL APPLICATION; CROSSWIND; FIELD EXPERIMENT; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; SPRAY APPLICATION; SPRAY DRIFT; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WAKE VORTEX;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84961169349     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.02.014     Document Type: Article

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