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Donald Coles
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 25
Citations - 3933
Donald Coles is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Turbulence & Boundary layer. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 25 publications receiving 3726 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald Coles include Stanford University.
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The law of the wake in the turbulent boundary layer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to represent the mean-velocity profile by a linear combination of two universal functions, namely the law of the wall and the wake, and compared the results with experimental data.
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An experimental study of entrainment and transport in the turbulent near wake of a circular cylinder
Brian J. Cantwell,Donald Coles +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental investigation of transport processes in the near wake of a circular cylinder at a Reynolds number of 140000 was performed using X-array hot-wire probes mounted on a pair of whirling arms, which increases the relative velocity component along the probe axis and decreases the relative flow angle to usable values in regions where fluctuations in flow velocity and direction are large.
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The Turbulent Boundary Layer in a Compressible Fluid
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived a transformation from first principles to reduce the boundary-layer equations for a general compressible two-dimensional flow to incompressible form, and applied the transformation to the problem of the turbulent boundary layer on a smooth wall.
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Structure and entrainment in the plane of symmetry of a turbulent spot
TL;DR: In this article, an ensemble average is fitted to a conical growth law by using data at three streamwise stations to determine the virtual origin in x and t and the two-dimensional unsteady stream function is expressed as ψ=U^2_∞tg(ξ,η) in conical similarity co-ordinates.
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Flying-Hot-wire Study of Flow Past an NACA 4412 Airfoil at Maximum Lift
Donald Coles,Alan J. Wadcock +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a flying hot wire was used to measure the relative flow direction of hot-wire data at closely spaced points along the probe arc, and the data were obtained at several thousand locations in the flow field.