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The study deals with the variations of third-order moments of velocity fluctuations, turbulent bursting and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) budget downstream of an isolated dune mounted on a rough bed in an open channel. The experimental data demonstrates that in the wall-wake flow, the third-order moments change their signs below the crest level of the dune, whereas their signs remain unchanged above the crest. The near-wake flow is characterized by sweep events and the far-wake flow is governed by the ejection. In the near-wake flow, the mean duration of bursting events is shorter than their mean interval of occurrence. Downstream of the dune, the turbulent production and energy dissipation start with large positive values in the vicinity of the bed and decrease with an increase in vertical distance until the lower-half of the height of dune. However, all the changes in the turbulence characteristics are significant at the near-wake zones that fade away after a certain distance in the downstream.
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Sarkar, S., Dey, S. (2020). Turbulence in Wall-Wake Flow Downstream of an Isolated Dune. In: Kalinowska, M., Mrokowska, M., Rowiński, P. (eds) Recent Trends in Environmental Hydraulics. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37105-0_21
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