It is suggested that boundary layer transition on a flat plate may be considered as a cascade of at least three distinct instabilities. The oscillation frequency of the velocity ’’spike’’ is predicted by the growth of a localized free shear layer that is a result of the earlier instabilities.
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Ron F. Blackwelder (1979) studied this question.
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