Re: [Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-28 Thread James Bowery
This waterspout video seems to support the laminar hypothesis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7ug1zoWWE On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: Chapter 5 (page 107) of the 2011 doctoral thesis Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like

Re: [Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-28 Thread James Bowery
Indeed, there is a similar phenomenon over land known as landspouts that are known to be laminar. It looks like Natarajan screwed up. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:07 AM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: This waterspout video seems to support the laminar hypothesis.

[Vo]:Atmospheric Vortex Engine Critical Questions

2011-11-27 Thread James Bowery
Chapter 5 (page 107) of the 2011 doctoral thesis Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vorticeshttp://vortexengine.ca/cfd/Diwakar_Natarajan_Full_thesis.pdf by Diwakar Natarajan concludes that cross-winds do not affect the power generation capacity of the AVE, but it appears that this is only with