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Visualization of an incompressible wake with base bleed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

C. J. Wood
C. J. Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
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Abstract

The wake behind a two-dimensional bluff body has been photographed in water in order to investigate the modifying effect of base bleed. With this technique it has been possible to measure velocities at chosen points and from these make simultaneous estimates of the base pressure and of the strength of individual vortices in the wake. The results suggest that the observed decay in the vortex structure of the wake is related to variations in the conditions of mixing between the base fluid and the external stream.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , 11 August 1967 , pp. 259 - 272
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© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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