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Results are shown of an experimental study concerning the effects of viscosity, of the velocity gradient, and of the wall proximity on the readings of a total-head Pitot tube during the measurement of the velocity distribution in the viscous sublayer region of a turbulent boundary layer.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 505–510, March, 1972.
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Repik, E.U. Measuring the velocity in a boundary layer with a total-head pitot tube. Journal of Engineering Physics 22, 357–360 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00829471
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