Instantaneous, dynamic and time-averaged characteristics of the vortex structures which are shed from the dimples placed on one wall of a channel are described. The dimpled test surface contains 13 staggered rows of dimples in the streamwise direction, where each dimple has a print diameter of 5.08 cm, and a ratio of depth to print diameter of 0.2. Considered are Reynolds numbers (based on channel height) ReH from 600 to 11 000, and ratios of channel height to dimple print diameter H/D of 0.25, 0.50, and 1.00. For all three H/D, a primary vortex pair is periodically shed from the central portion of each dimple, including a large upwash region. This shedding occurs periodically and continuously, and is followed by inflow advection into the dimple cavity. The frequency of these events appears to scale on time-averaged bulk velocity and dimple print diameter, which gives nondimensional frequencies of 2.2–3.0 for all three H/D values considered. As H/D decreases, (i) the strength of the primary vortex pair in...
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