KTH Mechanics
History of shear flow stability and transition
•Reynolds pipe flow experiment (1883)
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•Rayleigh’s inflection point criterion (1887)
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•Orr (1907) Sommerfeld (1908) viscous eq.
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•Heisenberg (1924) viscous channel solution
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•Tollmien (1931) Schlichting (1933) viscous BL solution
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•Schubauer & Skramstad (1947) experimental TS-wave verification
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•Klebanoff, Tidstrom & Sargent (1962) 3D breakdown