AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON TURBULENT COHERENT STRUCTURES NEAR A SHEARED AIR-WATER INTERFACE

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摘要 Theturbulencestructuresnearashearedair-waterinterfacewereexperimentallyinvestigatedwiththehydrogenbubblevisualizationtechnique.Sur-faceshearwasimposedbyanairflowoverthewaterflowwhichwaskeptfreefromsurfacewaves.Resultsshowthatthewindshearhasthemaininfluenceoncoher-entstructuresunderair-waterinterfaces.Low-andhigh-speedstreaksformintheregionclosetotheinterfaceasaresultoftheimposedshearstress.Whenacertainairflowvelocityisreached,'turbulentspots'appearrandomlyatlow-speedstreakswithsomecharacteristicsofhairpinvortices.Atevenhighershearrates,theflowneartheinterfaceisdominatedprimarilybyintermittentburstingevents.Thecoher-entstructuresobservednearshearedair-waterinterfacesshowqualitativesimilaritieswiththoseoccurringinnear-wallturbulence.However,afewdistinctivephenomenawerealsoobserved,includingthefluctuatingthicknessoftheinstantaneousboundarylayerandverticalvorticesinburstingprocesses,whichappeartobeassociatedwiththecharacteristicsofair-waterinterfaces.
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出处 《力学学报:英文版》 1999年4期
出版日期 1999年04月14日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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