The prevalence in a turbulent mixing layer of dynamical events with a coherent history over substantial times suggests that it is profitable to study in detail entirely deterministic versions of this flow and to attempt to use a simplified synthesis of these solutions as the fundamental representation in a stochastic treatment of the layer. It is proposed that the deterministic representation of the flow be achieved by the embedding of a short hierarchy of motions which are studied in detail, though not exhaustively, in Parts 1, 2 and 3. Part 1 deals with the fundamental or first-order motion, which is the evolution of a layer constrained to be purely two-dimensional.
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