This paper investigates experimentally the structure of turbulent blunt trailing edge body wakes with varying boundary-layer thicknesses controlled through the freestream velocity and the chord length. The intrinsic effect of transition to turbulence on the vortex-shedding frequency, strength, and its three-dimensional structure is explored. At large-scales, the vortex shedding is characterized by significant phase variations along the span, which vary stochastically and are punctuated by vortex dislocations when the phase differences grow large. These features of the vortex shedding are quantitatively examined in a streamwise–spanwise plane of the wake with particle image velocimetry. When the point of transition shifts upstream due to an increasing Reynolds number, greater phase variations in the vortex shedding along the span and more frequent dislocation events are produced. These changes are linked to the spanwise correlation of the streamwise velocity in the wake. In the turbulent boundary-layer regime, it is found that the phase drift does not change significantly. The decline in the spanwise correlation with increasing boundary-layer thickness in this regime is instead linked to the relative strength of the vortex shedding compared to the random turbulent fluctuations in the wake.


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    Title :

    Wake Three-Dimensionality of Profiled Blunt Trailing Edge Bodies with Varying Chord Length


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    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 62 , 11 ; 4101-4114


    Publication date :

    2024-11-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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