--- _id: '1021' abstract: - lang: eng text: Most flows in nature and engineering are turbulent because of their large velocities and spatial scales. Laboratory experiments on rotating quasi-Keplerian flows, for which the angular velocity decreases radially but the angular momentum increases, are however laminar at Reynolds numbers exceeding one million. This is in apparent contradiction to direct numerical simulations showing that in these experiments turbulence transition is triggered by the axial boundaries. We here show numerically that as the Reynolds number increases, turbulence becomes progressively confined to the boundary layers and the flow in the bulk fully relaminarizes. Our findings support that turbulence is unlikely to occur in isothermal constant-density quasi-Keplerian flows. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Jose M full_name: Lopez Alonso, Jose M id: 40770848-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lopez Alonso orcid: 0000-0002-0384-2022 - first_name: Marc full_name: Avila, Marc last_name: Avila citation: ama: Lopez Alonso JM, Avila M. Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2017;817:21-34. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.109 apa: Lopez Alonso, J. M., & Avila, M. (2017). Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.109 chicago: Lopez Alonso, Jose M, and Marc Avila. “Boundary Layer Turbulence in Experiments on Quasi Keplerian Flows.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2017.109. ieee: J. M. Lopez Alonso and M. Avila, “Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 817. Cambridge University Press, pp. 21–34, 2017. ista: Lopez Alonso JM, Avila M. 2017. Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 817, 21–34. mla: Lopez Alonso, Jose M., and Marc Avila. “Boundary Layer Turbulence in Experiments on Quasi Keplerian Flows.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 817, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 21–34, doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.109. short: J.M. Lopez Alonso, M. Avila, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 817 (2017) 21–34. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:49:44Z date_published: 2017-04-25T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-22T09:39:46Z day: '25' department: - _id: BjHo doi: 10.1017/jfm.2017.109 external_id: isi: - '000398179100006' intvolume: ' 817' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05527 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 21 - 34 project: - _id: 255008E4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: RGP0065/2012 name: Information processing and computation in fish groups publication: Journal of Fluid Mechanics publication_identifier: issn: - '00221120' publication_status: published publisher: Cambridge University Press publist_id: '6371' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Boundary layer turbulence in experiments on quasi Keplerian flows type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 817 year: '2017' ...