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Accurate prediction of the transition from laminar flow to turbulence remains an unresolved challenge despite its importance for understanding a variety of environmental, biological, and industrial phenomena. Well over a century of concerted effort has aimed toward a quantitative, mechanistic explanation of Osborne Reynolds' seminal observation of transition to turbulence in pipe flow, typically occurring when the ratio of inertial and viscous fluid dynamic forces -- the eponymous Reynolds number -- is approximately 2000. These studies have been confounded by subsequent observations that the Reynolds number at which transition occurs can be delayed to values as high as 100,000. This record-high laminar Reynolds number has not been exceeded in any similar flow configuration for more than 70 years, however, as it required experiments to be conducted using pipe lengths of up to 18 meters housed within a bomb shelter to eliminate ambient disturbances to the flow. Here, we demonstrate a benchtop jet flow that exhibits persistent laminar flow beyond a Reynolds number of 116,000, a value limited only by the maximum flow-generating capacity of the current facility. High-speed videography o

Author

Dabiri, John O.; Mohebbi, Nina; Fu, Matthew K.

Published

2022

Language

EN