News From the Field Researchers Reveal the Tangle Under Turbulence
March 28, 2007
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Turbulence is important in virtually all phenomena involving fluid flow, such as air and gas mixing in an engine and ocean waves breaking on a cliff. However, a comprehensive description of turbulent fluid motion remains one of physics' major unsolved problems. Researchers have visualized, for the first time, a hidden but coherent structure underlying turbulence's messy complexity. The work may ultimately help engineers design better planes, cars, submarines and engines.
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Source Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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