Unrestricted.2016-11-142011-02-182016-11-142000-05http://hdl.handle.net/2346/14295The goal of this work is to present an analytical and numerical investigation of the Kuo tornado model. The derivations of the model and a more general solution are described. The effects of several parameters on the streamlines are examined, and numerical simulations and methods are presented to analyze the associated heat equation.application/pdfengNavier-Stokes equationsTornadoesThesis