Fft-length

Short definition of Fft-length
fast Fourier transform length

This is the common definition for Fft-length, but other definitions maybe discussed within the wiki.

It is recommend that the fft-length (in time) should not exceed the length of the profiler $\frac{Lengthoftheprofiler}{Speedoftheprofiler}$ , unless the profiler is a rigidly fixed platform that is not swayed by the eddies in the flow.

The length of the vehicle that carries the shear probe sets a lower limit to the wavenumber of shear that can be resolved.

The lowest wavenumber that one wishes to resolve in a spectrum is determined by the length (in units of meters) of the segments of data that are processed by a fast Fourier transform. The lowest wavenumber resolved by a spectrum is the inverse of the length of the fft-segments. This choice is influenced by the (so far mostly unknown) rate of dissipation, statistical reliability, and the length of the vehicle that carries the shear probe. Very low $\epsilon$ values ($\sim {10}^{-10}$ W/kg) require spectra down to 0.5 to 1 cpm. Moderate rates (${10}^{-8}$ to ${10}^{-7}$ W/kg) require resolutions of $\sim$1 cpm, while higher rates require $\sim$2 cpm.

A fairly common processing technique is to window each fft segment with a cosine bell and to overlap the segments by 50%. The degrees of freedom (dof) produced by this method is 1.9 times the number of fft segments used to estimate the spectrum. The statistical reliability of a spectrum increases with the number of dof. Thus, the ratio of dissipation length to fft length is also driven by the statistical reliability that you wish to achieve. As a general rule, this ratio should never be less than 2, and a ratio of 5 or larger is highly desirable. Finally,

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