to approximately

In terms of the critical Reynolds number, the critical velocity is represented as

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These are turbulence models in which the Reynolds stresses, as obtained from a Reynolds averaging of the Navier-Stokes equations, are modelled by a linear constitutive relationship with the mean flow straining field, as:

where

* is the coefficient termed turbulence "viscosity" (also called

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