Wingtip Vortices

Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2009
Betascript Publishing (Verlag)
978-613-0-36184-6 (ISBN)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wingtip vortices are tubes of circulating air which are left behind a wing as it generates lift. One wingtip vortex trails from the tip of each wing. The cores of vortices spin at very high speed and are regions of very low pressure. To first approximation, these low-pressure regions form with little exchange of heat with the neighboring regions (i.e. adiabatically), so the local temperature in the low-pressure regions drops, too. If it drops below the local dew point, there results a condensation of water vapor present in the cores of wingtip vortices, making them visible. The local temperature may even drop below the local freezing point, in which case ice crystals will form inside the cores.

Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	243 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	613-0-36184-X / 613036184X
ISBN-13	978-613-0-36184-6 / 9786130361846
Zustand	Neuware