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    Reynolds Number for Moving Wire

    Your approach for calculating the Reynolds number is correct, but the critical value is going to be much smaller than for a flat plate, depending on how you define turbulence...  If you are looking at when you begin to get vortex shedding, the critical Re is around 35.  There...

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