At Devil’s Kettle in northern Minnesota, the Brule River divides around a rocky outcrop. The eastern branch drops visibly ...

We experience turbulence every day: a gust of wind, water gushing down a river, or mid-flight bumps on an airplane. Although it may be easy to understand what causes some kinds of turbulence—a felled ...

Scientists have shown in theoretical models of turbulence that even molecular motions can create large-scale patterns of randomness over a defined period of time. We experience turbulence every day: a ...

The Tijuana River’s polluted waters don’t just contaminate Southern California’s beaches – they also release toxic gases and aerosols that travel far beyond the riverbanks, threatening the health of ...

Experiments at the unique wind tunnel of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen show that laws formulated more than 80 years ago and their extensions only ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Turin have forced turbulent energy to flow in the wrong direction, reversing a pattern that physicists have treated as settled science ...

A team of physicists has discovered a new role for a specific type of turbulence—a finding that sheds light on fluid flows ranging from the Earth’s liquid core to boiling water. The research, which ...

Turbulent flow arises when inertial forces overwhelm viscous damping and small perturbations grow into chaotic, three-dimensional eddies that span a broad range of scales. Characterised by irregular ...

A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They’re instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in ...

Heinz, S. 2003 Statistical Mechanics of Turbulent Flows. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo (ISBN: 3-540-40103-2). The simulation of turbulent reacting flows, connected with ...