Laminar Flow -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Laminar Flow

A type of regular, smooth fluid motion also known as Poiseuille flow which occurs when , where is the Reynolds number and is the critical Reynolds number. Flow that is not laminar is said to be turbulent.

Navier-Stokes Equations, Reynolds Number, Tollman-Schlichting Wave, Turbulence




References

Lagerstrom, P. A. Laminar Flow Theorem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.



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