The Discrete Vortex Approximation of a Finite Vortex Sheet.

Abstract

It is shown by examination of a special case of aircraft trailing vortices that the approximation of replacing a finite vortex sheet by an array of line vortices can be unreliable, regardless of how many vortices are used.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0737862

Entities

People

  • D. W. Moore

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Flow
  • Trailing Vortices
  • Vortices

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Fluid Dynamics.