Detrended analysis of Reynolds stress in a decaying turbulent flow in a wind tunnel with active grids

Multi-scale properties of Reynolds stress in decaying turbulence in a wind tunnel with high Reynolds number are investigated. Two filtering techniques i.e., the zeroth-order and first-order detrending methods are applied to the two velocity components, where the local mean value (resp. local linear trend) is removed in the former (latter) technique. Some basic statistics for thirty measurements show that the variation is very large at first two locations and relatively small at last two locations. Moderately good power law is found for the mean value of local Reynolds stress at last three measurement locations with scaling exponents approximately being 1.0 and a dual power law exists for the mean value of standard deviation of local Reynolds stress at all four measurement locations with scaling exponents being 0.53 and 0.58 for zerothand first-order filtering respectively. Present results about local Reynolds stress are useful to build and evaluate the model of sub-grid Reynolds stress in large eddy simulations.