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Convective instability of a free-convection vortex

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The stability of free-convection vortex formations obtained in the laboratory is compared with natural tropical cyclones.

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Abbreviations

r:

radius

ρ:

density of air

ΔP:

pressure drop between the center of a vortex and its edge

ϕ :

latitude of the location of a natural tropical cyclone

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

    O. G. Martynenko, A. A. Solov'ev & A. D. Solodukhin

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  1. O. G. Martynenko
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  2. A. A. Solov'ev
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  3. A. D. Solodukhin
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 416–419, March, 1990.

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Martynenko, O.G., Solov'ev, A.A. & Solodukhin, A.D. Convective instability of a free-convection vortex. Journal of Engineering Physics 58, 301–303 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871458

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