Viscous sublayer flow visualizations at R0≅1 500 000

Abstract

Plan view flow visualization experiments were conducted in the atmospheric surface layer that flows over the Great Salt Lake Desert at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, Utah. Measurements were acquired on a nonconductive, polyethylene platform made flush with the desert floor. Surface conditions upstream of the measurement site were flat, devoid of vegetation, and because of the dried mud/clay/salt composition, essentially dust free. Local surface variations ranged between 1 and 3 mm, which corresponded to three to ten viscous units during the experiments. Flow visualizations were accomplished by continuously injecting theatrical fog through a tangential slit covering a smoke rese..