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Exp: Planar Turbulent Wake in Various Pressure Gradients

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The data on this page were provided by Xiaofeng Liu of San Diego State University and Flint Thomas of Notre Dame University.

         

These experimental data of planar turbulent wakes are from the following references:

• Liu, X., Thomas, F. O., Nelson, R. C., "An Experimental Investigation of the Planar Turbulent Wake in Constant Pressure Gradient," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, No. 8, 2002, pp. 2817-2838, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1490349.
• Thomas, F. O., Liu, X., "An Experimental Investigation of Symmetric and Asymmetric Turbulent Wake Development in Pressure Gradient," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2004, pp. 1725-1745, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1687410.
• Liu, X., Thomas, F. O., "Measurement of the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget of a Planar Wake Flow in Pressure Gradients," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 37, 2004, pp. 469-482, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-004-0813-3.
• Liu, X., Thomas, F. O., "Measurement of the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Budget of a Planar Wake Flow in Pressure Gradients," (errata) Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 37, 2004, pp. 773, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00348-004-0871-6.

The data for mean flow and turbulence in symmetric wakes are given in the following file:

• SymmetricWake_uvcorrected.tar.gz (gzipped tar file)

Additional data for asymmetric wakes and for the TKE budgets will be provided in the future.
 

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