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The essential features of the fluid-motion microscope are that the motions of minute particles moving through an intense beam of light are observed through a microscope and that provision is made to measure at a point in the field of view their mean speed, the maximum values of the three components of their turbulent velocity, and their maximum angular deviations from the mean direction of flow. The fluid-motion microscope is therefore suitable for the study of turbulent motion, especially that near a solid boundary, and a brief account is given in the paper of some of the investigations made with it, especially those relating to boundary-layer flow. They are (i) fully-developed turbulent flow in smooth and rough square pipes and in a smooth circular pipe, (ii) transition from laminar to turbulent flow in the boundary layer of a long streamline body of revolution, and (iii) static pressure in fully-developed turbulent flow.
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Fage, A. (1955). Studies of boundary-layer flow with a fluid-motion microscope. In: Görtler, H., Tollmien, W. (eds) 50 Jahre Grenzschichtforschung. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-20219-6_15
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