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Temperature fluctuation balance in an axisymmetric turbulent wake

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Results of experiments conducted in the thermal wake behind an axisymmetric body are used to evaluate the radial profiles of different terms of the balance equation for the mean square of temperature fluctuations.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 181–187, February, 1986.

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Dmitrenko, Y.M., Zhdanov, V.L., Kolovandin, B.A. et al. Temperature fluctuation balance in an axisymmetric turbulent wake. Journal of Engineering Physics 50, 123–128 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870073

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