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Criteria are established for the transition of laminar flow into turbulent as a consequence of probability estimates of interaction of individual liquid layers.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 56, No. 6, pp. 894–900, June, 1989.
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Rott, L.A. Toward a theory of turbulence. Journal of Engineering Physics 56, 611–616 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870428
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00870428