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In experiments and computations for Newtonian fluids, low-drag events are identified in which the turbulence moves locally towards a lower-branch exact coherent state whose mean velocity profile is similar to the maximum drag reduction profile for polymer solutions.
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Whalley et al. (2017) studied this question.
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