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Thomas Gerz
Researcher at German Aerospace Center
Publications - 67
Citations - 1614
Thomas Gerz is an academic researcher from German Aerospace Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wake turbulence & Vortex. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 64 publications receiving 1391 citations.
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Commercial aircraft wake vortices
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a consolidated European view on the current status of knowledge of the nature and characteristics of aircraft wakes and of technical and operational procedures of minimizing and predicting the vortex strength and avoiding wake encounters.
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The Perdigão: Peering into Microscale Details of Mountain Winds
H. J. S. Fernando,Jakob Mann,José M. L. M. Palma,Julie K. Lundquist,Rebecca Jane Barthelmie,Margarida Belo-Pereira,William O. J. Brown,Fotini Katopodes Chow,Thomas Gerz,Christopher M. Hocut,Petra M. Klein,Laura S. Leo,João Nunes Caldeira Marinho Matos,Steven P. Oncley,Sara C. Pryor,Ludovic Bariteau,Tyler M. Bell,Nicola Bodini,M. Carney,Michael Courtney,E. Creegan,R. Dimitrova,Sidney Gomes,Martin Hagen,J. O. Hyde,Stephan Kigle,Raghavendra Krishnamurthy,João Correia Lopes,L. Mazzaro,J. Neher,Robert Menke,P. Murphy,Lothar Oswald,S. Otarola-Bustos,A. Pattantyus,C. Veiga Rodrigues,Arthur Schady,N. Sirin,Scott M. Spuler,E. Svensson,Jessica M. Tomaszewski,David D. Turner,L. van Veen,Nikola Vasiljevic,Daniel Vassallo,S. Voss,Norman Wildmann,Yansen Wang +47 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a microscale (∼100 m) resolution of the wind energy industry's forecast on mountain winds at micro-scale resolution, which requires better microscal techniques.
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The turbulent decay of trailing vortex pairs in stably stratified environments
TL;DR: In this paper, the decay of wake vortex pairs in thermally stably stratified environments is investigated by means of large eddy simulations using in-situ measurements in the wakes of different aircraft.
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Research towards a wake-vortex advisory system for optimal aircraft spacing
Thomas Gerz,Frank Holzäpfel,Wayne H. Bryant,Friedrich Köpp,Michael Frech,Arnold Tafferner,Grégoire Winckelmans +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present concepts and designs of wake-vortex advisory systems in Europe and the USA, where the components of such systems have been tested successfully and evaluated.
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Strategies for Circulation Evaluation of Aircraft Wake Vortices Measured by Lidar
Frank Holzäpfel,Thomas Gerz,Friedrich Köpp,Eike Stumpf,Michael Harris,Robert I. Young,Agnès Dolfi-Bouteyre +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment of different methods for circulation evaluation from lidar measurement data of aircraft wake vortices is performed, and the theoretically derived characteristics of different evaluation methods are verified against lidar data recorded by several teams during the Wake Vortex Forecasting and Measuring Campaign at Oberpfaffenhofen (WakeOP).