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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of Small-Scale Roughness on the Mean Flow Profile of a Laminar Boundary Layer
The processes by which distributed surface roughness accelerate boundary layer transition remain unclear. Experimental studies aimed at clarification were carried out during the early 1980s by three groups who...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Some Comparisons of Linear Stability Theory with Experiment at Supersonic and Hypersonic Speed
The utility of stability theory in the prediction of transition at supersonic and hypersonic speeds has come to be widely accepted during the past few decades. The first compressible stability theory results t...
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Article
Application of Microgravity and Containerless Environments to the Investigation of Fusion Target Fabrication Technology
During the past few years we have been studying several of the physical processes relevant to the production of spherical shells for inertial confinement fusion targets, both in a microgravity environment and ...
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Article
Investigation of Metallic and Metallic Glass Hollow Spheres for Fusion Target Application
High quality metallic and metallic-glass microballoons (MMB and MGMB) are of considerable interest for fusion target applications on account of the intrinsic properties of these materials such as high density,...
