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Detailed measurements with hot-wires and pressure probes are presented for the interaction between a turbulent longitudinal vortex pair with “common flow” down, and a turbulent boundary layer. The interaction has a larger value of the vortex circulation parameter, and therefore better represents many aircraft/vortex interactions, than those studied previously. The vortices move down towards the boundary layer, but only the outer parts of the vortices actually enter the it. Beneath the vortices the boundary layer is thinned by lateral divergence to the extent that it almost ceases to grow. Outboard of the vortices the boundary layer is thickened by lateral convergence. The changes in turbulence structure parameters in the boundary layer appear to be due to the effects of “extra-rate-of-strain” produced by lateral divergence (or convergence) and by free-stream turbulence. The effect of the interaction on the vortices (other than the inviscid effect of the image vortices below the surface) is small. The flow constitutes a searching test case for prediction methods for three-dimensional turbulent flows.
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Cutler, A.D., Bradshaw, P. Strong vortex/boundary layer interactions. Experiments in Fluids 14, 321–332 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00189490
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