Some comparative experimental results are presented of bluff body wakes with free, fixed, and discontinuous separation. The particular examples considered are a circular cylinder, a plain blunt trailing edge aerofoil and a segemented blunt trailing edge aerofoil. The evolution of the near wake and vortex shedding modes are compared and discussed.
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