Download or read book A Brief Review of Some Mechanisms Causing Boundary Layer Transition at High Speeds written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In high speed flight, the state of the boundary layer can strongly influence the design of vehicles through its effect on skin friction drag and aerodynamic heating. The major mechanisms causing boundary layer transition on high speed vehicles are briefly reviewed and some empirical relations from the unclassified literature are given for the transition Reynolds numbers. Tauber, M. E. Ames Research Center NASA-TM-102834, A-90186, NAS 1.15:102834 RTOP 591-42-11...