Energetic scales in bluff body shear layers, a Reynolds number investigation
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Authors
Moore, Daniel Millyn
Issue Date
2020-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Mechanical engineering
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Abstract
The addition of freestream disturbances is carried out at Reynolds numbers approaching full scale. These data, in the form of surface pressures collected on the front face and beneath the separation bubble, suggest that the mechanism of peak pressures does not solely come from the amplitude of a single length scale as some have suggested. Rather, the peak events are simultaneous fluctuations of several length scales. This finding is subsequently discussed as it contains consequences for those modeling in wind tunnel environments or those who are unable recreate the natural wind spectrum in its entirety.
Description
August 2020
School of Engineering
School of Engineering
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY