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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 556, Issue -, Pages 271-282Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006009244
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Wide-field particle image velocimetry measurements were performed in a Mach 2 turbulent boundary layer to study the characteristics of large-scale coherence at two wall-normal locations (gamma/delta=0.16 and 0.45). Instantaneous velocity fields at both locations indicate the presence of elongated streamwise strips of uniform low- and high-speed fluid (length > gamma/delta). These long coherent structures exhibit strong similarities to those that have been found in incompressible boundary layers, which suggests an underlying similarity between the incompressible and supersonic regimes. Two-point correlations of streamwise velocity fluctuations show coherence over a longer streamwise distance at gamma/delta = 0.45 than at gamma/delta = 0.16, which indicates an increasing trend in the streamwise length scale with wall-normal location. The spanwise scale of these uniform-velocity strips increases with increasing wall-normal distance as found in subsonic boundary layers. The large-scale coherence observed is consistent with the very large-scale motion (VLSM) model proposed by Kim & Adrian (Phys. Fluids, vol. 11, 1999, p. 417) for incompressible boundary layers.
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