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Method of experimental investigation of a system of longitudinal vortices in the boundary layer

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A method and results of an experimental investigation of the transition boundary layer are presented for the formation and development of a system of oppositely rotating longitudinal vortices.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 996–1002, December, 1981.

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Yurchenko, N.F. Method of experimental investigation of a system of longitudinal vortices in the boundary layer. Journal of Engineering Physics 41, 1295–1299 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00825160

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