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• A force without the flow that makes it — Re from 1 to 100, and the Stokes limit · creeping-flow
• A swimmer that cannot go backwards — Re from 1 to 100, and the Stokes limit · creeping-flow
• How small is small enough — Re from 1 to 100, and the Stokes limit · creeping-flow
• The price of a gradient — Re 1 to 100 on the diameter — steady and two-dimensional throughout · energy-budget
• The third thickness — Re 1 to 100 on the diameter — steady and two-dimensional throughout · energy-budget
• The world with no inertia — Re from 1 to 100, and the Stokes limit · creeping-flow
• Where the heat of a drag is made — Re 1 to 100 on the diameter — steady and two-dimensional throughout · energy-budget · hero
• Where the heat of a drag is made — Re 1 to 100 on the diameter — steady and two-dimensional throughout · energy-budget
• The frequency a wake chooses — Re 50 to 2,000 — a circular cylinder, laminar shedding · regime-collapse
• The frequency a wake chooses — any Reynolds number for the street; Re 50 to 2,000 for the fits · regime-collapse
• The vorticity a clean surface cannot refuse — Re from 40 to 3000 — Moore and Schiller–Naumann are borrowed fits · extra-condition
• The vorticity a clean surface cannot refuse — Re from 40 to 3000 — Moore and Schiller–Naumann are fits · extra-condition
• A calculation with no memory in it — Re between 90 and 3,500 — the ceilings are borrowed, the requirements are not · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — every morphological number is a measurement · flapping-wing · hero
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — every morphological number is a measurement · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — the morphology is measured, the speeds are derived · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — the ceilings are borrowed, the requirements are not · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — the morphology is measured, both numbers derived · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — the ceilings are borrowed, the requirements are not · flapping-wing
• The bee that cannot fly — Re between 90 and 3,500 — every morphological number is a measurement · flapping-wing
• The vorticity a clean surface cannot refuse — Re from 10 to 10⁴, near the front stagnation point of a sphere · extra-condition
• The drag that falls as it speeds up — Re 8.8e+4 to 1.3e+5 along the flight · sphere-drag
• The ball that never forgets its spin — sea-level air; one calibrated spin-down coefficient throughout — Re from 3e4 to 2e5 across the six balls · how-long-a-machine-remembers
• The ball that never forgets its spin — the shot lengths are stated on the ledger — Re from 3e4 to 2e5 across the six · how-long-a-machine-remembers
• The ball that never forgets its spin — sea-level air — Re from 3e4 to 2e5 across the six balls · how-long-a-machine-remembers
• The drag that falls as it speeds up — Re 4.7e+4 to 2.0e+5 along the flight · sphere-drag
• Three buffer layers, one friction — Re from 18,000 to 490,000 · structure-and-mixture
• The drag that falls as it speeds up — Re 3·10⁴ to 10⁶ — swept across the drag crisis · sphere-drag
• The drop that is not a tear — Re 3·10⁴ to 10⁶ — swept across the drag crisis · sphere-drag
• The cost of going turbulent — Re 1e+5 to 1e+7 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction
• The number that is not a number — Re 1e+5 to 1e+7 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction
• The solution that keeps its nonlinear term — Re from 10³ to 10⁷ on Omega R²/nu — laminar · oscillating-wall
• The cost of going turbulent — Re 1e+5 to 1e+8 — the ratio is what changes · plate-friction
• The cost of going turbulent — Re 1e+5 to 1e+8 — the ratio is what changes · plate-friction
• The number that is not a number — Re 1e+5 to 1e+8 — the ratio is what changes · plate-friction
• A limit nothing reaches — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the ratio is what changes · plate-friction
• The cost of going turbulent — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction · hero
• The cost of going turbulent — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction
• The layer that stops growing — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction
• The number that is not a number — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction · hero
• The roughness a wall cannot feel — Re 1e+5 to 1e+9 — the two laws differ in slope · plate-friction

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