Preferred modes and the spreading rates of jets
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 26 (10) , 2932-2938
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864058
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.Keywords
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