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The thrust of this paper is to validate, test and compare several Cohe
rent Structure eduction methods utilizing the same data base. The flow
chosen was that of an experimental study of a plane, incompressible,
fully developed turbulent two-stream mixing layer. The mixing layer wa
s chosen as the data base because it has been studied extensively from
a coherent structures point of view. In addition, its characteristics
(similarity, convection velocities, etc.) are well documented. There
are also no wall effects so that comparisons between techniques are si
mplified. The data was collected from hot wire rakes with good spatial
resolution thus allowing the contributors to apply and test different
structure eduction techniques. The techniques chosen for discussion a
nd used here have found wide utilization over the past decade, and all
hold forth the promise of extensive application in the future. These
include: Conditional Sampling (Vorticity-based and other methods); Wav
elets; Pattern Recognition Analysis; Proper Orthogonal Decomposition;
Stochastic Estimation; Topological Concept-based methods; Full Field M
ethods (e.g., pseudo flow visualization). All are illustrated by appli
cation to the mixing layer data base, and comparisons made between the
results. This common study has shown that direct comparisons between
results of several methods are now possible. Good quantitive and quali
tative agreement between the different methods have been observed as w
ell as some differences noted. As an example, the size of the averaged
structures computed from the various methods compare to within 6 perc
ent.