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Galen B. Schubauer
Pages 204-209

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From page 205...
... In particular, the famous SchubauerSkramstad experiments on laminar instability are one of the most important contributions to modern fluid dynamics. In every profession, an individual may be highly valued by outsiders and much less so by colleagues intimately acquainted with his specific work.
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From page 206...
... The rapid development of aeronautics and the resulting need for aerodynamic testing required wind tunnels with well-defined flow properties simulating flight in the free atmosphere. The necessity of defining and measuring the characteristics of turbulence thus became of great importance, and the development of turbulence-measuring instrumentation and the design of wind tunnels with low turbulence level became an important task for the NBS group.
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From page 207...
... Heisenberg confirmed by detailed and complex analysis, an earlier and at the time suprising—conjecture by Ludwig Prandtl that viscosity could have a destabilizing effect. Finally, Walter Tollmien in 1929 obtained the first theoretical value for a critical Reynolds number and mapped out the complete instability region.
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From page 208...
... In addition to being elected to the National Academy of Engineering and awarded the Reed Aeronautics Award of the AlAA, Schubi's honors included the 1944 Washington Academy of Sciences' Award for Scientific Achievement in engineering sciences and the 1988 Fluid Dynamics Prize of the American Physical Society.
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