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Influence of certain operating and geometrical parameters on the flow structure in an air vortex

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The results of measuring the tangential and axial velocity components in a laboratory model of an atmospheric vortex are presented for different values of the geometrical parameters and degrees of swirling of the stream.

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  1. A. V. Lykov Institute of Heat and Mass Exchange, Academy of Sciences of the Belorussian SSR, USSR

    V. A. Bobr, V. I. Kalilets & A. D. Solodukhin

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  1. V. A. Bobr
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  2. V. I. Kalilets
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 398–403, September, 1983.

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Bobr, V.A., Kalilets, V.I. & Solodukhin, A.D. Influence of certain operating and geometrical parameters on the flow structure in an air vortex. Journal of Engineering Physics 45, 994–997 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00826491

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