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Fluid mechanics

change of a flow from orderly laminar motion to irregular turbulent motion as the Reynolds number rises past a critical range.

In fluid mechanics, laminar-turbulent transition refers to change of a flow from orderly laminar motion to irregular turbulent motion as the Reynolds number rises past a critical range. This meaning comes from Reynolds (1883) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.[1]

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Reynolds, O. (1883). An experimental investigation of the circumstances which determine whether the motion of water shall be direct or sinuous, and of the law of resistance in parallel channels. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 174, 935-982. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1883.0029

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