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The Couette-Taylor problem is described in this section and our laser Doppler velocimetry studies of transitions in Couette-Taylor flow are presented in the next section, which also includes a summary of three other recent studies of flow spectra in the transition region. In the final section the experimental results will be compared with the behavior found in a numerical studies of a finite-dimensional mathematical model.
This research is supported by the National Science Foundation.
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Swinney, H.L. (1979). Transition to Turbulence in Couette-Taylor Flow. In: Birman, J.L., Cummins, H.Z., Rebane, K.K. (eds) Light Scattering in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7350-0_2
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