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The instability in a shear flow together with the transition to a turbulent regime is considered taking besides the usual small-amplitude and long-scale disturbances also the small-scale and small-amplitude turbulence which is already available in the flow, into account. Proposed model gives the possibility to estimate the turbulence level analytically, and in particular, to obtain the Tollmien-Schlichting waves in a boundary layer.
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Barenblatt, G.I. (1989). Instability and Turbulence. In: Engelbrecht, P.J. (eds) Nonlinear Waves in Active Media. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74789-2_14
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