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The paper presents some recent new data on the combined effects of pre
ssure gradient and freestream turbulence level on the onset and length
of the latter stages of the boundary layer transition process. Genera
lized correlations for the transition length Reynolds number are devel
oped from considerations of the non-dimensional turbulent spot formati
on rate. The optimized correlation is built into a popular linear comb
ination integral computer code to predict the growth of the transition
al boundary layer in a number of practical engineering flows.