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A sink-flow theory of tornados

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A sink-flow model of a tornado is proposed. The mechanisms of the formation of circulation and reasons for the sink flow are considered. Relations that are necessary to describe the processes in tornados and to predict them are obtained. The way of preventing tornados is outlined.

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  1. Institute of the Cryosphere of the Earth, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 70, No. 6, pp. 979–989, November–December, 1997.

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Smul’skii, I.I. A sink-flow theory of tornados. J Eng Phys Thermophys 70, 941–951 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-997-0046-4

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