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7.5 Properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>coherent</strong> velocity <strong>structures</strong><br />

identify structural similarities. <strong>The</strong> same holds <strong>for</strong> figure 7.22 where especially <strong>the</strong> near-wall<br />

vortices ¹¥»"¬ below are considered. Thus, it can be again stated that <strong>the</strong>se vortices are not<br />

usually several thousand wall-units in length as assumed by some authors. Ano<strong>the</strong>r remarkable<br />

feature is <strong>the</strong> shear-layer indicated by <strong>the</strong> red contour in <strong>the</strong> lower right <strong>of</strong> figure 7.22<br />

and <strong>the</strong> different height <strong>of</strong> this <strong>flow</strong> region between <strong>the</strong> image pair recorded simultaneously<br />

at ñ different locations. Finally it can be seen that <strong>the</strong> low-momentum region is frequently<br />

flanked by stream-wise vortices.<br />

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