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Unsteady Turbulent Boundary Layers

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Turbulent flows are by definition unsteady, and so we need to explain what is meant by “unsteady turbulent flows”. Up until now, turbulent flows were decomposed into the flow obtained after time averaging (which was therefore time independent), and the fluctuations which varied in time.

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Schlichting (Deceased), H., Gersten, K. (2017). Unsteady Turbulent Boundary Layers. In: Boundary-Layer Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52919-5_21

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