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Old 10-12-2020, 09:57 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead View Post
That photo was likely taken at an airspeed below 20-mph. It would be at sub-critical Reynolds number. You should have recognized it immediately. Not germane.
There's another image produced at supercritical Rn, necessary for the development of a proper turbulent boundary layer.
Is this just an innocent undersight or deliberate obfuscation? Conformation bias?
Confirmation bias? I took a screenshot from the same video that produced the image you're talking about, just a few seconds after. Yeah, I'm trying to lead people astray....
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