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The problem of laminar—turbulent transition is of great interest in applied engineering, for instance for the prediction of transition to turbulence on turbine blades, where the impingement of the turbulence from the wake of the stator influences the boundary layers on the rotor. Another important aspect is the effect of the free-stream turbulence on wind tunnel data1. Usually it is desirable to reduce the level of turbulence in order to resemble free-flight conditions. However, all wind tunnels have some background disturbances with different characteristics, so that additional knowledge about the ‘dangerous’ parameters of the free-stream turbulence is of interest. Nevertheless, despite being a subject of interest since the 1930s, the understanding of the effect of free-stream turbulence on the onset of transition has been significantly advanced only in the last decade.
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Boiko, A.V., Grek, G.R., Dovgal, A.V., Kozlov, V.V. (2002). Laminar—turbulent transition at high free-stream turbulence level. In: The Origin of Turbulence in Near-Wall Flows. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04765-1_5
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