Small compared to what? Big compared to what? Since turbulence is altogether a different type of fluid flow to laminar flow, it is desirable to be able to quantify under what conditions it occurs. Let ...

Physicists have proven -- numerically and experimentally -- that turbulence in fluid flows can be understood and quantified with the help of a small set of special solutions that can be ...

Turbulence is one of the greatest mysteries of modern science. The equations that model the flow of fluids — from rivers to air currents — date back two centuries, and they work well when a fluid ...