***** COMPARISON BETWEEN THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS IN TURBULENT PIPE FLOWS *****
EXTREME REYNOLDS NUMBERS ---- Re: 10300141, 19903343 ----
As the name indicates these are the highest Reynolds numbers available today for
turbulent pipe flow, and they are taken from the superpipe at Princeton. The data
of the same laboratory at Reynolds number 5884574 could not be distinguished, on this scale,
therefore we plot only the two cases with the highest Re.
In the above figure :
- The circles (green) are data from the superpipe
(found at http://www.princeton.edu/~gasdyn/index.html#superpipe_data).
These data have not been corrected for Pitot tube displacement effects, nor for any other effects.
The Reynolds number here is equal to 10300141.
- The diamonds (blue) are data from the superpipe
(found at http://www.princeton.edu/~gasdyn/index.html#superpipe_data).
These data have not been corrected for Pitot tube displacement effects, nor for any other effects.
The Reynolds number here is equal to 19903343.
- The solid line (green) represents the result of the theory. A second-order ordinary differential
equation is solved. The result is (on this scale) the same for both experimental boundary conditions.