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Preferred modes and the spreading rates of jets
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http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof1/26/10/10.1063/1.864058No data is associated with this publication.
Abstract
For about a decade it has been noticed from the measurements of many jets that the value of the preferred mode and the spreading rate vary within a range of about 100%. In the present paper it is suggested that extremely low-level spatially coherent disturbances in individual facilities change the initial conditions of a laminar shear layer. The various initial conditions are able to cause different downstream developments of the jet and result in the discrepancies reported in the literature.
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