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A spatial stability study of the nonparallel developing flow in a channel shows that in the near inlet region, the critical Reynolds number based on the growth rate of stream function at the channel center line is only 80% of that for the parallel flow theory, but the difference diminishes downstream.
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Garg et al. (1981) studied this question.
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