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Original Russian Text © A.Yu. Varaksin, M.E. Romash, V.N. Kopeitsev, M.A. Gorbachev, 2011, published in Teplofizika Vysokikh Temperatur, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 317–320.

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Varaksin, A.Y., Romash, M.E., Kopeitsev, V.N. et al. Physical simulation of air tornados: Some dimensionless parameters. High Temp 49, 310–313 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0018151X11020155

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