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The term intermittency is applied to two distinct types of phenomena, externally and internally intermittent flows, [1] Chap. 7.2, Benzi and Biferale [2], Frisch [3], Chap. 8. Townsend [4] and Corrsin [5] observed in experiments on turbulent wakes and jets that turbulence away from the centre of the flow appeared as a random sequence of active bursts and quiescent intervals. Therefore, the flow field contains continuously changing subsets that are turbulent and subsets that are approximately non-turbulent (weakly turbulent), separated by an interface. This phenomenon is called external intermittency.
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Kollmann, W. (2019). Intermittency. In: Navier-Stokes Turbulence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31869-7_16
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