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Near the trailing edge of a splitter plate in an originally laminar mixing layer, the coherent structures have a nominally constant period with no superimposed random fine scale turbulence. However, in a region further downstream, the phase of the passing coherent structures becomes decorrelated and random small eddies occur. In this paper, the physical mechanisms of these transition processes are discussed.
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Ho, C.M., Zohar, Y., Foss, J.K., Huang, L.S. (1989). Transition Processes of Mixing Layers. In: Fernholz, HH., Fiedler, H.E. (eds) Advances in Turbulence 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83822-4_7
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