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Figure 3

From: Modeling how shark and dolphin skin patterns control transitional wall-turbulence vorticity patterns using spatiotemporal phase reset mechanisms

Figure 3

Transitional flow comparison between model and experiments.

(a), (d), (f lower) Modeled transitional flow. (b44), (c45), (e), (f upper29) Transitional flow observed in experiments. Emmons' turbulence spot dye-visualization (e) due to M. Gad-el-Hak, Pvt. Comm. d: kx = 0, μ = 16(1 + 0.1i), λ = (1 − 2i)/A0. Fig. 3b reprinted by permission of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.; Fig. 3c reprinted by permission of the Cambridge University Press; Fig. 3e reprinted by permission of M. Gad-el-Hak; Fig. 3f reprinted with permission of the Cambridge University Press.

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