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We present the most relevant recent findings that allow for a rational timeaveraged description of laminar-turbulent transition of an incompressible nominally two-dimensional and steady boundary layer along the impermeable surface of a rigid blunt body. Rigorous application of matched asymptotic expansions for sufficiently high values of both the Reynolds number and a turbulence-level gauge parameter shows that the presence of a leading-edge stagnation point is associated with the generation of a turbulent shear layer that exhibits an asymptotically small streamwise velocity deficit. Remarkably, however, the turbulence intensity never reaches its theoretically possible maximum that conforms to fully developed turbulent flow.
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Scheichl, B., Kluwick, A. (2009). Evolution of a Boundary Layer from Laminar Stagnation-Point Flow towards Turbulent Separation. In: Peinke, J., Oberlack, M., Talamelli, A. (eds) Progress in Turbulence III. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02225-8_45
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