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We shall now follow on from the discussion of laminar pipe flow. There we determined that the pressure drop is proportional to the volume flux, a result which agrees with experiment only for Reynolds’ numbers smaller than a critical Reynolds’ number . If this critical Reynolds’ number is exceeded the pressure drop increases sharply and finally becomes proportional to the square of the flux through the tube. At the same time there is a striking change in the behavior of the flow.
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Spurk, J.H., Aksel, N. (2020). Fundamentals of Turbulent Flow. In: Fluid Mechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30259-7_7
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