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Two-dimensional turbulent wakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Ian S. Gartshore
Ian S. Gartshore
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
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Abstract

The equations of mean motion indicate that two-dimensional turbulent wakes, when subjected to appropriately tailored adverse pressure gradients, can be self-preserving. An experimental examination of two nearly self-preserving wakes is reported here. Mean velocity, longitudinal and lateral turbulence intensity, inter-mittency and shear stress distributions have been measured and are compared with Townsend's data from the small-deficit undistorted wake. In comparison with the undistorted case, the present wakes have slightly lower turbulent intensities and significantly lower shear stresses, all quantities being non-dimensionalized by a local velocity scale taken as the maximum mean velocity deficit. A consideration of the reasons for the shear stress reduction leads to an expression from which the shear stresses in any symmetrical free equilibrium shear flow can be found. This relationship is used to calculate the rate of growth in the measured wakes, with reasonable success.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , 29 November 1967 , pp. 547 - 560
Copyright
© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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