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The spectrum of a cross-stream component of turbulence in a tidal stream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

H. L. Grant  and
A. Moilliet
H. L. Grant
Affiliation:
Pacific Naval Laboratory of the Defence Research Board of Canada, Esquimalt, B. C.
A. Moilliet
Affiliation:
Pacific Naval Laboratory of the Defence Research Board of Canada, Esquimalt, B. C.
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Abstract

The probe of a hot-film flowmeter was towed in directions approximately normal to the direction of a tidal stream. The one-dimensional spectra are found to be proportional to $k|^{-{\frac {5}{3}}}$ in the inertial subrange.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , June 1962 , pp. 237 - 240
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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