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Two circular jets are considered. One issues from a contraction with a laminar top-hat velocity profile. The other exits from a pipe with a fully developed turbulent mean velocity profile. In spite of the significantly different initial conditions, spectra of axial and radial velocity fluctuations in the far field (x≳30d, where d is the jet diameter) collapse over scales ranging from the Kolmogorov length scale to a length scale characterizing the organized motion. This agreement is consistent with the observation that, at the measurement station, the large-scale anisotropy is unchanged between the two flows.
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Received: 21 September 2000/Accepted: 5 March 2001
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Antonia, R., Zhao, Q. Effect of initial conditions on a circular jet. Experiments in Fluids 31, 319–323 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480100289
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003480100289