A boat moves through water (T = 40°F), at 18.0 mi/h. A flat portion of the boat hull is 3.3 ft long, and is treated as a simple smooth flat plate boundary layer, to first approximation. Is the boundary layer on this flat part of the hull laminar, transitional, or turbulent? Discuss.

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A boat moves through water (T = 40°F), at 18.0 mi/h. A flat portion of the boat hull is 3.3 ft long, and is treated as a simple smooth flat plate boundary layer, to first approximation. Is the boundary layer on this flat part of the hull laminar, transitional, or turbulent? Discuss. 

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