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The stability of a flow consisting of solid body rotation superposed on an entrance-type pipe flow profile is investigated experimentally. Increasing the swirl ratios from zero to four reduced the axial Reynolds number at which laminar flow breaks down from 2500 to 900.
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Nagib et al. (1971) studied this question.
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