Small-scale instabilities in trailing wake vortices in a stratified fluid

28th Fluid Dynamics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Delisi, Donald P ^a   Robins, Robert E ^a  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT; DENSITY STRATIFIED; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PRIMARY INSTABILITY; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SMALL-SCALE INSTABILITY; TRAILING WAKE VORTICES; VERTICAL MIGRATION;

STABILITY;

EID: 84964252119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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