NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE FORMATION OF A TORNADO FUNNEL IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER.

Abstract

A tornado-like vortex, which intensifies with time, is imposed on the upper boundary of the boundary layer. The downward development of this axisymmetric vortex is studied by numerical integration of the flow equations. The contour of the visible tornado funnel has been computed for various times. The streamlines, the fields of pressure deviation, and of the tangential velocity are presented for a time close to the steady state. The influence of a varying eddy diffusion coefficient is investigated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1968
Accession Number
AD0676036

Entities

People

  • A. Szillinsky
  • F. Wippermann

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Axisymmetric
  • Boundaries
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coefficients
  • Diffusion
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Equations
  • Layers
  • Mathematics
  • Numerical Integration
  • Steady State

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.