Trailing vortices (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Trailing vortices

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The study of vortex reconnection was triggered by the pioneering work of Crow (1970), who investigated the sinusoidal instability in a pair of counter-rotating trailing vortices shed from the wingtips of an airplane.

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Herbert Raab

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