Simultaneous observations of the solar wind velocity as measured at the Pioneer 9 and Ogo 5 spacecraft during five solar rotations in 1968 and 1969 are presented. During this time, Pioneer 9 was traveling in toward the sun to approximately 0.7 AU while the earth orbiter Ogo 5 was spending long periods in the interplanetary medium. A comparison of the 3-hour averages of solar wind velocity obtai...

This paper describes a method for estimating wind field (wind velocity, rate of change of wind velocity and wind gradient) for small and mini unmanned aerial vehicles. The approach utilizes sensors which are already part of a standard autopilot sensor suite (GPS, inertial measurement unit, airspeed, magnetometer). The primary motivation is enabling energy harvesting; a secondary motivation is d...

Wind is one of the main forces affecting the rate of forest fire spread. It may either increase or decrease the energy transferred toward the unburned areas. The present study is devoted to understanding the effect of wind on the propagation of forest fires. To model the propagation of forest fires a semiphysical approach is used. By this approach forest fire is considered as an adiabatic combu...

EISCAT observations of interplanetary scintillation have been used to measure the velocity of the solar wind at distances between 15 and 130 Rx (solar radii) from the Sun. The results show that the solar wind consists of two distinct components, a fast stream with a velocity of &800 km s~1 and a slow stream at &400 km s~1. The fast stream appears to reach its final velocity much closer to the S...

[1] It took the solar polar passage of Ulysses in the early 1990s to establish the global structure of the solar wind speed during solar minimum. However, it remains unclear if the solar wind is composed of two distinct populations of solar wind from different sources (e.g., closed loops which open up to produce the slow solar wind) or if the fast and slow solar wind rely on the superradial exp...

asymptotically exact and nonlocal third order nonlinear evolution equations are derivedfor two counterpropagating surface capillary gravity wave packets in deep water in thepresence of wind flowing over water.from these evolution equations stability analysis ismade for a uniform standing surface capillary gravity wave trains for longitudinal perturbation. instability condition is obtained and g...

The shape of wake behind a wind turbine is normally assumed to have a hat shape for the models used in wind farm layout optimization purposes; however, it is know from experimental tests and numerical simulations that this is not a real assumption. In reality, the results of actual measurements and detailed numerical simulation show that the velocity in wake region has a S-shape profile. Th...