2001 年 67 巻 662 号 p. 2541-2549
A positively buoyant wake from a circular cylinder at the Reynolds number 800∿940 is measured, discussed and found as follows : By heating an isothermal wake, turbulent energy and turbulent vorticity in the isothermal turbulent wake are conserved in the buoyant wake, and this buoyant wake certainly becomes a double structure combined non linearly with two kinds of large-scaled coherent motions, i.e. one is the vortex street motion and the other the plume swaying motion with extremely different frequencies each other. That is, the buoyant wake is a turbulent flow with a triple structure of free turbulence, vortex motion and swaying motion. Structural instability with abrupt change occurs certainly due to unbalance between two kinds of large scaled motions.