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Use of breakdown coefficients in turbulent jets to determine the universal exponent μ

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Second-order moments of the breakdown coefficients q r,l of the squared velocity derivative in plane and circular jets indicate a value of the exponent μ which is larger than that obtained by other methods using the same data or that previously reported by other workers using the same method on atmospheric data. The difference may be due to a failure of the present data to satisfy the first condition of scale similarity, possibly because of the relatively small Reynolds numbers of the laboratory flows. The dependence of the variance of ln q r,l on the length scale l appears to be independent of Reynolds number.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle, 2308, Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia

    B. R. Satyaprakash & R. A. Antonia

  2. Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark

    D. H. Britz

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 77004, Houston, TX, U.S.A.

    A. K. M. F. Hussain

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Satyaprakash, B.R., Antonia, R.A., Britz, D.H. et al. Use of breakdown coefficients in turbulent jets to determine the universal exponent μ. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 24, 77–87 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121801

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