Spectral flatness factor and ‘intermittency’ in turbulence and in non-linear noise
- 1 May 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 10 (3) , 366-370
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112061000974
Abstract
The flatness factor F of the signal transmitted through a band-pass filter has been measured for the turbulence in a free shear layer and for a squared Gaussian noise. They both show flatness factor increasing with centre frequency fc. In the turbulence, band-passed signals look intermittent and have larger F than the full signal, but in the squared noise, band-passed signals all have smaller F than the full signal although they look more intermittent.It is shown analytically that the derivative of a smoothed, squared Gaussian noise may have flatness factor either greater or less than the undifferentiated signal.Keywords
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