The Statistical Properties of the Vorticity Field of a Two-Stream Turbulent Mixing Layer

  • J.-L. Balint
  • J. M. Wallace
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Abstract

The plane mixing-layer is one of the most widely studied turbulent shear flows both because it is an idealization of a wide variety of practical and technically important turbulent flow problems and because of its simple geometry. The statistics of the velocity field of this flow are fairly well documented, particularly for the single-stream case (Liepmann & Laufer [1], Wygnanski & Fiedler [2], Foss [3], Metha & Westphal [4]. The statistical properties of the vorticity field of plane mixing layers are virtually unknown however, although much is known about the vortex structure of these flows (Brown & Roshko [5], Winant & Browand [6], Konrad [7], Breidenthal [8], Browand & Troutt [9], Bernal [10], Roshko [11], Hussain [12]).

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Shear Layer Turbulent Boundary Layer Vorticity Component Vorticity Fluctuation Flatness Factor 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • J.-L. Balint
    • 1
  • J. M. Wallace
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of MarylandUSA

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