Figure 3.5:

Model P simulations against experimental snapshots. The bottom frames depicts Profile plots of Model P that have been fit to ${\mathcal{l}}_{data}^{\beta }(t)$ for data set 3 when β = 0.1 (blue), 0.2 (green), 0.3 (black). The calculated value for ${\mathcal{l}}_{data}^{0.2}(t)$ is depicted against the experimental snap shot with a dashed black line and the solid thin lines denote one standard deviation of the data. Against the model profile, we’ve depicted the lines u = 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 for easy identification of the model leading edge location. The black dots denote the experimental leading edge locations.