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🌀 Runway Wake Vortices - 2D Counter-Rotating Pair and Ground Effect

2D companion of the runway vortex sim: a point-vortex pair with Lamb-Oseen cores, image vortices for the ground, exponential circulation decay, crosswind drift, descent-speed and swirl-profile graphs, and conservation checks.

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Runway Wake Vortices - 2D Counter-Rotating Pair and Ground Effect ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the runway vortex sim: a point-vortex pair with Lamb-Oseen cores, image vortices for the ground, exponential circulation decay, crosswind drift, descent-speed and swirl-profile graphs, and conservation checks.

Wake VortexAviation SafetyVortex DynamicsGround Effect

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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