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Intermittency measurements are made in the transition-zone of a three-dimensional constant pressure diverging flow in order to study the effect of lateral strain rate on the intermittency distribution. Measured intermittency data are found to follow the two-dimensional behaviour thus indicating that the lateral strain rate does not affect the normalised intermittency distribution in the transition zone.
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Ramesh, O.N., Dey, J. & Prabhu, A. Transitional intermittency distribution in a three-dimensional constant pressure diverging flow. Experiments in Fluids 21, 259–263 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00190675
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