A method for accelerating the destruction of aircraft wake vortices

36th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Rennich, Steven C ^a,b   Lele, Sanjiva K ^a,c  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; HAZARDS; WAKES;

AIRCRAFT WAKE VORTICES; COHERENT STRUCTURE; LARGE AIRCRAFT; VORTEX WAKES; WAKE VORTEX;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84983179353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.1998-667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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