The laminar line does not end; the flow leaves it
Friction factor against Reynolds number in a pipe. The laminar law f = 64/Re is exact and is drawn continuing past the transitional Reynolds number, faintly, because it remains a solution there — the flow simply stops taking it. The turbulent branch is Blasius' correlation and begins where experiments find transition, not where any calculation puts it.
5 essays call
pipe-transition. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member
of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.
It is also the blast radius. Changing pipe-transition changes every figure listed here
at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show —
which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.
Where it is called
What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.
- The solutions stop being chosen Transition and turbulence
- The roughness a wall cannot feel Fluids at work
- The radius that costs least Fluids at work
- The randomness that is not in the equations What is taught wrongly
- A puff that does not know how old it is Transition and turbulence