Volume 7 (2004) Pages 1051-1060
This study describes an experimental investigation on coherent structures beneath the air-water interface in wind-induced open-channel flows by using laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) with a wave-gauge sensor. In this study, the organized motions are visualized by the hydrogen bubbles method and investigated in detail by the linear filter technique and the time-frequency analysis using the wavelet transform, by which the wave-induced linear fluctuations are separated from the whole velocity fluctuations. As the results of experiments, it is shown that the coherent motions are observed significantly beneath the free surface due to the air-sheared flows. It is pointed out that the main characteristics of the streaks and coherent motions near the interface in these flows are similar to those of turbulent boundary layer with non-slip wall.