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Stability and Transition

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Suppose we acquired a solution to the Navier–Stokes and Boussinesq equations for a certain flow geometry.

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    In popular literature this is often misinterpreted in the sense that hurricanes would be caused by the fluttering of butterflies.

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    In this book we use the Darcy friction factor \(\lambda \), defined in (6.34); this should not be confused with the alternatively defined Fanning fraction factor which is equal to \(\lambda /4\).

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Nieuwstadt, F.T.M., Boersma, B.J., Westerweel, J. (2016). Stability and Transition. In: Turbulence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31599-7_3

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