Thermal perturbation of trailing vortices

The possibility of diminishing the danger of trailing vortices through thermal forcing is investigated. Heating the vortices would have two beneficial effects. First, it would cause the vortices to descend more rapidly thus clearing the flight path more quickly. Second, it would cause the vortices to draw closer together, thus greatly increasing the growth rate of the short-wave instabilities that can ultimately destroy the vortices through cross-diffusion