Scaling laws for fully developed turbulent flow in pipes: Discussion of experimental data

4 February 1997

journal article
Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol. 94 (3) , 773-776
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.3.773

Abstract

We compare mean velocity profiles measured in turbulent pipe flows (and also in boundary layer flows) with the predictions of a recently proposed scaling law; in particular, we examine the results of the Princeton "super-pipe" experiment and assess their range of validity.

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