The persistence of trailing vortices: A modeling study

DOI10.1063/1.868734zbMath0866.76036OpenAlexW2010800920MaRDI QIDQ4851127

Otto Zeman

Publication date: 20 July 1997

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.868734

zbMATH Keywords

cylindrical coordinatesReynolds stress closure modelviscous effectsfar-field regionequation of conservation of mean vortex circulationstabilizing effect of flow rotationturbulent wing-tip vortex flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incompressible viscous fluids (76D99) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10)

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