Eddies against the wall
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 05:42
in Physics & Chemistry
Fluids experts writing in the journal Physics of Fluids, which is published by the American Institute of Physics, are projecting it will be many decades before we can accurately probe the properties of turbulence near walls. High-Reynolds-number flows (which are prone to turbulence) are critically important in aeronautics, naval applications, energy conversion processes, manufacturing, mixing and dilution of pollutants, and in many aspects of climate modelling, according to Professor Hassan Nagib at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago...