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Contents<br />

4.7 Monochromatic aberrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61<br />

4.8 Feasibility study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

5 Investigation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> xy-plane 69<br />

5.1 <strong>The</strong> statistical description <strong>of</strong> turbulence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />

5.2 Experimental set-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72<br />

5.3 Statistical properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>flow</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

5.3.1 Single point statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

5.3.2 Spatial auto- and cross-correlation functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

5.4 Properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>coherent</strong> velocity <strong>structures</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

5.4.1 Shear-layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90<br />

5.4.2 Ejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

5.4.3 Sweep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

6 Investigation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> xz-plane 97<br />

6.1 Experimental set-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98<br />

6.2 Statistical properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> buffer layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

6.2.1 Single point statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

6.2.2 Spatial auto-correlation functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

6.2.3 Spatial cross-correlation functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

6.3 Spatio-temporal buffer layer statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

6.4 Properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>coherent</strong> velocity <strong>structures</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

6.4.1 Low-speed streaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

6.4.2 Sweeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124<br />

6.4.3 Ejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />

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7 Investigation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> yz-plane 135<br />

7.1 Experimental set-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />

7.2 Statistical properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> log-law region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

7.2.1 Spatial correlations with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

7.2.2 Spatial cross-correlations with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143<br />

7.3 Spatio-temporal correlations with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146<br />

7.4 Spatio-temporal correlations with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

7.5 Properties <strong>of</strong> <strong>coherent</strong> velocity <strong>structures</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

7.5.1 Loop-shaped <strong>structures</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />

7.5.2 Sweeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157<br />

7.5.3 Stream-wise vortices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

8 Summary 163<br />

Bibliography 169<br />

Commonly used symbols 177<br />

Index 180<br />

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