Effect of ground roughness on aircraft trailing vortices

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dc.contributor.author	Kliment, Linda K.
dc.contributor.author	Rokhsaz, Kamran
dc.date.accessioned	2007-09-06T17:16:53Z
dc.date.available	2007-09-06T17:16:53Z
dc.date.issued	2007-04-27
dc.identifier.citation	Kliment, Linda K. & Kamran Rokhsaz.(2007). Effect of ground roughness on aircraft trailing vortices. In Proceedings : 3rd Annual Symposium : Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS : Wichita State University, p.185-186	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/855
dc.description	Paper presented to the 3rd Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Wichita State University, April 27, 2007.	en
dc.description	Research completed at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering.	en
dc.description.abstract	The work presented here is aimed at investigating the effect of the terrain roughness on the behavior of aircraft wake vortices. The tests are conducted in the water tunnel with a smooth ground plane first. Then, streamwise ridges are added to the ground in order to simulate terrain roughness. In addition, a case is presented without the ground plane. This latter data, showing the behavior of the vortices in the absence of any ground, provides a basis for comparison as well as allowing calculation of the wake vortex strengths. The experimental data shows temporal and spatial behavior of the vortices. In the cases without a ground plane and with a smooth ground plane, the water tunnel measurements are consistent with information in the literature. With the information garnered from these tests, the authors are able to quantify the effect of ground roughness on wake vortex behavior.	en
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dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University. Graduate School.	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GRASP	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.3	en
dc.title	Effect of ground roughness on aircraft trailing vortices	en
dc.type	Conference paper	en