Scaling of the Turbulence Transition Threshold in a Pipe
Physical Review Letters2003Vol. 91(24), pp. 244502–244502
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Abstract
We report the results of an experimental investigation of the transition to turbulence in a pipe over approximately an order of magnitude range in the Reynolds number Re. A novel scaling law is uncovered using a systematic experimental procedure which permits contact to be made with modern theoretical thinking. The principal result we uncover is a scaling law which indicates that the amplitude of perturbation required to cause transition scales as O(Re-1).
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