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Boundary-layer transition triggered by a roughness element generates a turbulent wedge that spreads laterally as the flow proceeds downstream. The spreading half angle is about $6^{circ}$ in zero-pressure-gradient flows regardless of Reynolds number and roughness shape. Recent simulations and experiments have sought to explain the lateral-spreading mechanism and have observed high- and low-speed streaks along the flanks of the wedge that appear central to the spreading process. To better elucidate the role of streaks, a naphthalene flow-visualization survey and hotwire measurements are conducted over a wider range of Reynolds numbers and a longer streamwise domain than previous experiments. The results reconfirm the spreading half angle is insensitive to Reynolds numbers based on roughness location, $Re_{x,k}$, and roughness height, $Re_{kk}$. When made nondimensional by the unit Reynolds number, the distance from the roughness to the effective origin of the turbulent wedge and to the first high-speed flanking streaks depends on $Re_{kk}$ but not $Re_{x,k}$. The distance between the first and second high-speed streaks is also observed to depend on $Re_{kk}$. In spite of a long measurement domain, third streaks are not observed and it remains unknown whether subsequent streak-to-streak distances collapse to a universal value. The reason downstream streaks are not observed may be low-frequency meandering of streak structures. Hotwire measurements confirm breakdown to turbulence first occurs via a shear-layer instability above low-speed streaks. Farther downstream, high-intensity broadband fluctuations are observed in equivalent positions on secondary low-speed streaks.
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