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Some measurements in the self-preserving jet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

I. Wygnanski  and
H. Fiedler
I. Wygnanski
Affiliation:
Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington 98124
H. Fiedler
Affiliation:
Boeing Scientific Research Laboratories, Seattle, Washington 98124
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Abstract

The axisymmetric turbulent incompressible and isothermal jet was investigated by use of linearized constant-temperature hot-wire anemometers. It was established that the jet was truly self-preserving some 70 diameters downstream of the nozzle and most of the measurements were made in excess of this distance. The quantities measured include mean velocity, turbulence stresses, intermittency, skewness and flatness factors, correlations, scales, low-frequency spectra and convection velocity. The r.m.s. values of the various velocity fluctuations differ from those measured previously as a result of lack of self-preservation and insufficient frequency range in the instrumentation of the previous investigations. It appears that Taylor's hypothesis is not applicable to this flow, but the use of convection velocity of the appropriate scale for the transformation from temporal to spatial quantities appears appropriate. The energy balance was calculated from the various measured quantities and the result is quite different from the recent measurements of Sami (1967), which were obtained twenty diameters downstream from the nozzle. In light of these measurements some previous hypotheses about the turbulent structure and the transport phenomena are discussed. Some of the quantities were obtained by two or more different methods, and their relative merits and accuracy are assessed.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , 18 September 1969 , pp. 577 - 612
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© 1969 Cambridge University Press

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