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January 11, 2008, 09:18	what defines a low Re number for airfoil flows?	#1
Rif Guest Posts: n/a	How does one define a low Reynolds number airfoil flow? is 1 million considered low? Cheerios Rif

January 13, 2008, 02:07	Re: what defines a low Re number for airfoil flows	#2
Charles Guest Posts: n/a	1e6 is possibly marginally low, but not much. Perhaps a meaningful definition is that low Re is where laminar separations start causing serious issues. So yes, < 1e6 would be a reasonable threshold.

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