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Scaling laws for fully developed turbulent flow in pipes: discussion of experimental data
G I Barenblatt1, A J Chorin, V M Prostokishin
1Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, USA.
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.