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    Surface shear stress fluctuations in the atmospheric surface layer
    Monty, J. P. ; Chong, M. S. ; Hutchins, N. ; Marusic, I. ( 2006)
    A lightweight, high frequency response, floating element sensor was used to measure wall shear stress fluctuations in an atmospheric surface layer. The sensor uses a laser position measurement system to track the motion of the floating element. The measurements were taken as part of an internationally coordinated experimental program designed to make extensive spatial and temporal measurements of velocity, temperature and wall shear stress of the surface layer. Velocity measurements were made with both a 27m high vertical array and a 100m wide horizontal array of sonic anemometers; 18 anemometers in total were employed. Cross-correlations of shear stress and streamwise velocity fluctuations were analysed in an attempt to identify structure angles in the flow. The results were shown to compare favourably with experimental data from controlled, laboratory turbulent boundary layer measurements at three orders of magnitude lower Reynolds number.
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    Simultaneous orthogonal-plane particle image velocimetry measurements in a turbulent boundary layer
    Hambleton, W. T. ; Hutchins, N. ; Marusic, I. (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
    Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements were taken simultaneously in streamwise–spanwise and streamwise–wall-normal planes in a zero pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer over a flat plate. Polarization techniques were employed to allow PIV to be taken in both planes simultaneously. Image preprocessing techniques were used to improve the quality of data near the line of intersection of the planes. Linear stochastic estimation was performed on these data, revealing the streamwise, spanwise, and wall-normal extent of swirl events primarily near the top of the log region of the boundary layer. Swirl events with rotation consistent with the mean vorticity are found to have a large footprint inthe lower limit of the log region whereas swirls with opposite-signed vorticity are found to have little influence lower in the boundary layer. These long-time-averaged statistics contain features that are consistent with the hairpin packet model (or its kinematic equivalent). This model also seems to provide a reasonable description of many instantaneous events involving large-scale coherence, where long regions of streamwise momentum deficit are surrounded by vortex cores.