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This paper describes an experimental study of the relationship between coherent vortical structures and the intensity of heat transport in the initial region of a round, free jet. Simultaneous measurements of velocity and temperature were taken with a four-wire combined probe in a jet that was acoustically stimulated with a frequency corresponding to the jet-column mode. The obtained results suggest that the mutual phase relations between oscillatory and random components of velocity and temperature lead to substantial intensification of the radial heat transport. Due to the same reason the longitudinal heat flux does not reveal a significant change in the presence of coherent structures and, as a result, a much wider spread of the temperature field in comparison with velocity may be observed as a characteristic feature of this flow. It was also observed that heat transfer processes are realized in substantial part by random turbulence generated due to the action of coherent motion.
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Received: 16 January 1997/Accepted: 20 August 1997
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Drobniak, S., Elsner, J. & El-Kassem, ES. The relationship between coherent structures and heat transfer processes in the initial region of a round jet. Experiments in Fluids 24, 225–237 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050169
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480050169