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The problem of freestream-turbulence-generated instability waves in the flat-plate boundary layer is solved on the basis of a nonlinear turbulence model admitting the deviation of the speed of propagation of vortex disturbances from the flow velocity. The solution obtained well describes the experimental dependence of the laminar-turbulent transition Reynolds number on the freestream turbulence degree.
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Original Russian Text © M.V. Ustinov, 2014, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2014, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 58–72.
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Ustinov, M.V. Tollmien-Schlichting wave generation by flow turbulence. Fluid Dyn 49, 468–480 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462814040073
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