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region was always accompanied to its sides by low speed streaks. This pattern of high and low speed streaks was reminiscent of the Amini & Lespinard's 'incipient spots.' In Figure 59 (e) , the spanwise shear was greatest at x = 23 where the high speed region was sandwiched between two low speed streaks and were associated with the Bridge Vortices at t = 3 9.6. Because the Bridge Vortices interacted with the legs of the u-shaped vortex. Figure 59(f-h) show that the disturbance grew in the spanwise direction until it spanned the width of the computational domain at t = 109.6. Because periodic boundary conditions were applied at the sidewalls, further spanwise growth was suppressed. At this point, the disturbance could be thought of as interacting with its images to the sides of the domain. This would limit the spanwise movement of the Bridge Vortices and prevent further spanwise growth of the disturbance. The leading part of the disturbance in Figure 59 (h) was dominated by the high speed fluid transported by the hairpin vortices in this area. At the trailing part of the disturbance, a second high speed region developed at the centerline in between two low speed streaks. This was due to the Tertiary Hairpin Vortices growing and merging into a u-shaped vortex. The streamwise velocity contours in Figure 59(f-h) became increasingly 1 1 9 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
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Full text | region was always accompanied to its sides by low speed streaks. This pattern of high and low speed streaks was reminiscent of the Amini & Lespinard's 'incipient spots.' In Figure 59 (e) , the spanwise shear was greatest at x = 23 where the high speed region was sandwiched between two low speed streaks and were associated with the Bridge Vortices at t = 3 9.6. Because the Bridge Vortices interacted with the legs of the u-shaped vortex. Figure 59(f-h) show that the disturbance grew in the spanwise direction until it spanned the width of the computational domain at t = 109.6. Because periodic boundary conditions were applied at the sidewalls, further spanwise growth was suppressed. At this point, the disturbance could be thought of as interacting with its images to the sides of the domain. This would limit the spanwise movement of the Bridge Vortices and prevent further spanwise growth of the disturbance. The leading part of the disturbance in Figure 59 (h) was dominated by the high speed fluid transported by the hairpin vortices in this area. At the trailing part of the disturbance, a second high speed region developed at the centerline in between two low speed streaks. This was due to the Tertiary Hairpin Vortices growing and merging into a u-shaped vortex. The streamwise velocity contours in Figure 59(f-h) became increasingly 1 1 9 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. |