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Hot-wire measurements were conducted in the very near wake (x/d⩽10) of a circular cylinder at a Reynolds number based on cylinder diameter, Re d of 3900. Measurements of the streamwise velocity component with the use of single sensor hot-wire probes were found to be inaccurate for such flowfields where high flow angles are present. An X-array probe provided detailed streamwise and lateral velocity component statistics. Frequency spectra of these two velocity components are also presented. Measurements with a 4-sensor hot-wire probe confirmed that the very near wake region is dominantly two-dimensional, thus validating the accuracy of the present X-array data.
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This study has been funded by the NASA-Ames University Consortium Cooperative Agreement, NCC2-5003. We wish to thank Patrick Beaudan for providing us with the LES results for comparison and Parviz Moin for his interest in and encouragement of this experiment to provide validation data for the LES. We also wish to thank loseph Murray for his help with the look-up-table data reduction program.
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Ong, L., Wallace, J. The velocity field of the turbulent very near wake of a circular cylinder. Experiments in Fluids 20, 441–453 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00189383
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