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Hydrodynamics and heat exchange in turbulent momentumless wakes

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On the basis of the Reynolds equations in the approximation of the boundary layer, the article obtains the similarity solutions for the axisymmetric wake of a body with a hydrodynamic propulsion agent.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 640–647, April, 1983.

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Shashmin, V.K. Hydrodynamics and heat exchange in turbulent momentumless wakes. Journal of Engineering Physics 44, 438–443 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00825196

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