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The stability of Blasius and secondary flow is analyzed numerically. The resulting developed self-oscillatory regimes are calculated. The threshold characteristics for the development of three-dimensional structures thus obtained are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 4, pp. 33–38, July–August, 1989.
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Lifshits, A.M., Rakhmatullaev, R.D. & Shtern, V.N. Threshold of development of three-dimensional structures in Blasius flow. Fluid Dyn 24, 515–520 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052410
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