(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 143-701, Korea;(2) Chemical Engineering Department, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, U.S.A
Abstract:
Over the past 15 years direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flow and particle image velocimetry (PIV) have provided the opportunity to obtain information about a turbulent velocity field simultaneously at a large number of locations. This paper gives a personal viewpoint of how these techniques are providing new insights about the Reynolds stress producing structures in turbulence generated by flow over a smooth boundary. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.