dynamics, Batchelor vortices, first described by George Batchelor in a 1964 article, have been found useful in analyses of airplane vortex wake hazard...
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In fluid dynamics, a vortex (pl.: vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or...
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George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist. He was for many years a Professor...
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Wake turbulence (redirect from Wake vortex)
can be extremely dangerous to people standing behind the aircraft.) Batchelor vortex Eddy (fluid dynamics) Wake (of boats) Wingtip device "AIM Page-569"...
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Vorticity (redirect from Vortex line)
variety of complex flow phenomena, such as the formation and motion of vortex rings. Mathematically, the vorticity ω {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\omega...
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Press. G.K. Batchelor (1967). An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press. Rott, N. (1958). On the viscous core of a line vortex. Zeitschrift...
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ISBN 0-19-853630-5 P. G. Saffman, Vortex Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-521-42058-X G. K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics...
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A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex, is a torus-shaped vortex in a fluid; that is, a region where the fluid mostly spins around an imaginary axis...
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In fluid dynamics, the Burgers vortex or Burgers–Rott vortex is an exact solution to the Navier–Stokes equations governing viscous flow, named after Jan...
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Max Munk. In this model, the vortex bound to the wing develops along the whole wingspan because it is shed as a vortex-sheet from the trailing edge,...
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