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Near wake properties of axisymmetric bluff body flows

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Experiments have been made to measure some of the near wake properties of axisymmetric bluff body flows with fixed points of separation, including the detention or residence time of fluid borne scalar entities, base pressure coefficient, wake bubble length parameter and shape parameter. Measurements were made in smooth and turbulent air flow for Reynolds number in the range 2×103<Re<4×104. The results for a given bluff body were found to be uniquely controlled by a free-stream turbulence parameter. The data for all the shapes of bluff body in the class under consideration were found to collapse into unique inter-relationships by the introduction of the face pressure coefficient as a quantitative measure of “bluffness”.

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Humphries, W., Vincent, J.H. Near wake properties of axisymmetric bluff body flows. Appl. Sci. Res. 32, 649–669 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00384126

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