Effect of turbulence of the outer stream on the transition for some classes of self-similar flows

It is shown that in the presence of very low levels of pulsations at the outer limit of the laminar boundary layer the energy of neutral oscillations within the layer itself reaches very high values. This predetermines the transition to turbulent flow.Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 519–527, March, 1976.