A Computer Model to Predict Potential Wake Turbulence Encounters in the National Airspace

With an increasing population of super heavy aircraft operating in the National Airspace System and with the introduction of NextGen technologies, the wake vortex problem has become more important for airport capacity and the en-route air traffic operations. The vortices generated by heavy and super...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fan, Zheng
Other Authors: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/75043