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Turbulent pipe flow is supposed to be highly confined by the pipe geometry and an interaction of the wall layers developing on ‘opposite’ sides of the center line is expected. The negative two-point correlation of streamwise fluctuations across the centerline is an obvious evidence of this interaction. To investigate this interaction and to also study the large-scale and very large-scale motion in the logarithmic and wake region of the pipe flow shear layers, measurements using stereoscopic high-speed PIV were performed in a plane perpendicular to the mean flow at bulk Reynolds numbers Re b =10 000÷44 000. Individual recording sequences cover more than 150 bulk scales based on U b and R such that even the largest expected flow structures are captured. The results will be compared to existing DNS and hot-wire data available in the literature. The uniqueness of the present data is that the entire azimuthal plane is covered such that further valuable information about the large-scale organized structure of turbulent pipe flow can be assessed.
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Große, S., Kuik, D.J., Westerweel, J. (2011). Large-Scale Organized Motion in Turbulent Pipe Flow. In: Stanislas, M., Jimenez, J., Marusic, I. (eds) Progress in Wall Turbulence: Understanding and Modeling. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9603-6_38
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