UH-60 Rotor Wake

prescribed-wake kinematic model

Tip vortices
Inboard sheet
Vortex skeleton
Fuselage
Color: swirl
Units: imp
Pause

Drag = orbit · wheel/pinch = zoom. Set V=0 for hover (stacked helical "disks" + 4 interlocking tip-vortex helices). Raise V to skew the wake aft into the CFD geometry.

Flight state

Swirl rate |vθ|
030 m/s
v1.17.9
Transpire Dynamics
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