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The Three-Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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An experimental verification of coles’ postulate of the Law of the Wake in three dimensions has been attempted. This hypothesis, which is strongly supported by experimental evidence in two dimensions, purports to represent the velocity vector in a yawed boundary layer by the sum of two vectors, whose magnitudes are found from the universal law of the wall, and a second universal function, the law of the wake. It has been found that the velocity vector can be represented in this way and the wake function required for this is very similar to Coles’ form. Limitations of the experimental arrangement however prohibited the comparison of vector directions with that proposed by Coles.
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