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What causes<br />

turbulence?<br />

Is simply having Re>>>>1 sufficient?<br />

Plane pipe flow is linearly unstable for Re>Rec<br />

plane Couette flow marginally stable but always becomes turbulent<br />

What about a Keplerian flow?<br />

d/dr(Ωr 2 )>0, Rayleigh stable & stable epicyclic response<br />

a stable response hinders a turbulent random walk

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