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The Use of DNS to Define Stress Producing Events for Turbulent Flow over a Smooth Wall

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Over the past 15 years direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flow and particle image velocimetry (PIV) have provided the opportunity to obtain information about a turbulent velocity field simultaneously at a large number of locations. This paper gives a personal viewpoint of how these techniques are providing new insights about the Reynolds stress producing structures in turbulence generated by flow over a smooth boundary.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 143-701, Korea

    Yang Na

  2. Chemical Engineering Department, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, U.S.A

    Thomas J. Hanratty & Zi-Chao Liu

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Na, Y., Hanratty, T.J. & Liu, ZC. The Use of DNS to Define Stress Producing Events for Turbulent Flow over a Smooth Wall. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 66, 495–512 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013562531776

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