Investigation of Vortex Wake Stability Near the Ground
Abstract
Vortex wakes exist in a complicated environment near the ground at airports. Under many situations, factors combine to move a wake sufficiently far from the runway approach corridor that it does not constitute a hazard to following aircraft. Situations exist, however, where a wake can possibly linger at high strength long enough to present operational problems. The sinuous mutual induction instability of a vortex pair has been investigated theoretically and experimentally in atmospheric conditions which prevail near the ground, thereby extending previous work of Crow and Bate for the same instability aloft. Two theoretical models were developed -- one for a vortex pair in the constant stress layer of the atmospheric boundary layer, and the second for a vortex interacting with its image when in ground effect.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 31, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA017586
Entities
People
- E. R. Jr Bate
- I. H. Tombach
- S. C. Crow