Downstream evolution of the Bénard–von Kármán instability

S. Goujon-Durand; P. Jenffer; J. E. Wesfreid

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.50.308

Downstream evolution of the Bénard–von Kármán instability

S. Goujon-Durand, P. Jenffer, and J. E. Wesfreid

Phys. Rev. E 50, 308 – Published 1 July 1994

Abstract

We describe experiments in the Bénard–von Kármán hydrodynamic instability of the vortex shedding behind an obstacle. We obtain the scaling laws for the evolution of the global mode describing the envelope of the peak to peak amplitude velocity oscillation of the flow velocity and we show the existence of a universal curve for the renormalized amplitude of the streamwise evolution of this amplitude.

Received 28 October 1993

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.50.308

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S. Goujon-Durand, P. Jenffer, and J. E. Wesfreid

Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique et Mécanique Physique (URA CNRS No. 857), Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris, 10, rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

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