The Formation and Intensification of Supercritical Tornado-like Vortices—a Laboratory Study
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Observations of tornadoes in the field and laboratory investigations of tornado-like end-wall vortices have both demonstrated the complexity of this fluid phenomenon. The structure of the core region in particular depends on a number of parameters, one being the swirl ratio (S), i.e the degree of swirl in the background flow (DaviesJones, 1976), another being the degree of roughness of the underlying surface. These are
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