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The mixing layer: deterministic models of a turbulent flow. Part 1. Introduction and the two-dimensional flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

G. M. Corcos  and
F. S. Sherman
G. M. Corcos
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
F. S. Sherman
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

The prevalence in a turbulent mixing layer of dynamical events with a coherent history over substantial times suggests that it is profitable to study in detail entirely deterministic versions of this flow and to attempt to use a simplified synthesis of these solutions as the fundamental representation in a stochastic treatment of the layer. It is proposed that the deterministic representation of the flow be achieved by the embedding of a short hierarchy of motions which are studied in detail, though not exhaustively, in Parts 1, 2 and 3. Part 1 deals with the fundamental or first-order motion, which is the evolution of a layer constrained to be purely two-dimensional.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 139 , February 1984 , pp. 29 - 65
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© 1984 Cambridge University Press

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