Picture of a submarine 
 The picture of the submarine shows not laminar flow 
 as stated in the description of the picture. 
 The flow is only laminar for the first few centimeter 
 from the leading edge of the submarine, assuming  
 a critical Reynoldsnumber of 10000, and normal viscosity 
 of water. 

 :It certainly appears to be laminar for several feet.  Perhaps microturbulence does start earlier on, but only reaches a visible level when the bubbles appear in the water.   

 :The flow arround the front of the sub shows very little deformation of the water surface, thus one might think that the flow is laminar, but at high Reynoldsnumbers like for flow arround a submarine, flow is always turbulent. Think of a river surface without wind, the watersurface appears flat, but the flow is actually turbulent. Also, the braking of the wave, causing the white spray has very little to do with the turbulence, as one might think from the description of the picture. The word microturbulence is misleading since the instability phenomenons causing turbulence are responsible firstly for the big scale turbulence, which is then transfered via mediumscale and microscale turbulence to the fluid viscosity. Gudo 14 June 2006 (UTC) 

 == Inviscid flow == 

 I am under the impression that inviscid flow is non-laminar. I think the point about inviscid flow should be changed to a point about creeping motion (Stokes flow) which is the exact opposite of inviscid flow - viscous effects are much greater than inertial effects. Any thoughts?   

 I will go ahead and make the change