Properties of spatial temperature derivatives in the atmospheric surface layer |
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| Authors: | R A Antonia A J Chambers D Phong-Anant S Rajagopalan |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle, 2308 New South Wales, Australia |
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| Abstract: | A pair of parallel cold wires separated in either the vertical or lateral direction was used to obtain the three components  x, y, z of the temperature derivative in the streamwise, lateral and vertical directions, respectively. The average absolute skewness values of x and z are nonzero and approximately equal, while the skewness of y is approximately zero. These results appear to be consistent with the presence of a large, three-dimensional organised structure in the surface layer. There is an apparent low-frequency contamination in the spectral density of y and z due mainly to small errors in estimating the sensitivity of the cold wires. The temperature derivatives were high-pass filtered, the filter being set to remove possible contributions from the large structure and to minimise low-frequency sensitivity contamination. The filtered rms ratios \~x/\~y and \~x/\~z were in the range 0.7 to 0.9, a result in qualitative agreement with that obtained in the laboratory boundary layer by Sreenivasan et al. (1977). The skewness of filtered x or z is negligible, consistent with local isotropy of small-scale temperature fluctuations and in support of the high wavenumber spectral isotropy discussed in Antonia and Chambers (1978). |
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