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Waving plants and turbulent eddies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2010

J. J. FINNIGAN
J. J. FINNIGAN*
Affiliation:
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Pye Laboratory, Black Mountain Laboratories, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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New large-eddy simulations of flow over a flexible plant canopy by Dupont et al. (J. Fluid Mech., 2010, this issue, vol. 652, pp. 5–44) have produced apparently paradoxical results. Work over the last three decades had suggested that turbulent eddies could ‘lock onto’ to the waving frequency of uniform cereal canopies. Their new simulations contradict this view, although a resolution may lie in the essentially three-dimensional nature of the instability process that generates the dominant eddies above plant canopies.

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Focus on Fluids
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 652 , 10 June 2010 , pp. 1 - 4
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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