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This paper reports on an experimental investigation of the flow over two-dimensional, surfacemounted obstacles at moderately high Reynolds numbers (5000 < Re H < 50000). Both a plane and an axisymmetric geometry were used, allowing comparison of the turbulent structure of the separated shear layers in the two geometries and their development up to and beyond the point of mean reattachment. First comparisons between the obstacle flows and their geometrically simplified counterparts, the plane backstep and the axisymmetric sudden expansion, are drawn on the basis of wall pressure distributions, mean and fluctuating velocity fields and derived quantites of the above.
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Dimaczek, G., Tropea, C., Wang, A.B. (1989). Turbulent Flow over Two-Dimensional, Surface-Mounted Obstacles: Plane and Axisymmetric Geometries. In: Fernholz, HH., Fiedler, H.E. (eds) Advances in Turbulence 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83822-4_19
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