Are turbulence-degraded optical wavefronts and beam trajectories fractal?

32nd AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Catrakis, Haris J ^a   Aguirre, Roberto C ^a   Thayne, Robert D ^a   Mcdonald, Brenda A ^a   Hearn, Joshua W ^a  

^a Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDITY; FRACTALS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; TRAJECTORIES; TURBULENCE; WAVEFRONTS;

COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; GEOMETRIC DESCRIPTION; OPTICAL DISTORTION; OPTICAL WAVEFRONT; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENCE-DEGRADED; TURBULENT FLUID INTERFACES; TURBULENT SHEAR FLOWS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 85085780028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2001-2801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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