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During the last years, the development of wavelet transform allowed to access to more detailed information about the dynamics of space-frequency varying physical phenomena. Among others, the coherent structures in turbulent flows is a suitable domain of application for these tools. Indeed, these turbulent features have a lot of complex properties, for which the wavelet transform could provide a deeper analysis and understanding. These structures are mainly multi-scales (the higher the Reynolds number is, the wider the range of characteristic scales is), well localised in space and time and evolving with time. In order to understand the capabilities of 3D wavelet transform for the detection and the characterisation of structures in 3D scalar fields, we first examine the behaviour of the wavelet transform on a simple 3D object: cubic body. Then we apply wavelet transform to scalar fields arising from real fluid dynamics computations, i.e. homogeneous incompressible turbulent and 3D shear layer -- shock wave interaction. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0841.00017].