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A vortex structure of an air flow with a characteristic size of vortices comparable with the primary vortex size was observed in a vortex chamber of planar-radial geometry for the first time. The vortex component of the flow velocity along the chamber radius and its axis was calculated.
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Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 41–49, January–February, 2000.
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Bykovskii, F.A., Vedernikov, E.F. The flow in a planar-radial vortex chamber. 2. Vortex structure of the flow. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 41, 35–43 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02465234
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