Vortex Collisions Leave Clues to Turbulence
Vortex ring collisions have long been admired for their beauty, but they’re now shedding light on the fundamental interactions that lead to turbulence. By dying just the cores of colliding Keep reading
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The Drama of Turbulence
Photographer Jason Wright captures dramatic views of Hawaiian landscapes. Moments like these remind us of the spectacular power of the ocean and atmosphere around us. Just look at all that incredible turbulence! Keep reading
Astrophysical Turbulence
Subsonic turbulence – like the random and chaotic motions of air and water in our everyday lives – is something we have only a limited understanding of. Our knowledge of Keep reading
An Introduction to Turbulence
With some help from Physics Girl and her friends, Grant Sanderson at 3Blue1Brown has a nice video introduction to turbulence, complete with neat homemade laser-sheet illuminations of turbulent flows. Grant Keep reading
What Makes Turbulence So Hard
Turbulence – that pestersome, unpredictable, and chaotic state of flow – has been a thorn in the sides of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers for centuries. It is certainly one of Keep reading
2D Turbulence
Turbulence, the chaotic regime of fluid dynamics, is a complicated beast. It’s hard to analyze or predict, but we do understand some general ideas about it, like the fact that Keep reading
Visualizing Turbulence
Turbulence, the seemingly random and chaotic state that fluids often tend toward, can be difficult to wrap one’s head around. Turn your faucet on high or pour milk into your Keep reading
Turbulence and Star Formation
Space, as I’ve discussed previously, is surprisingly full of matter, especially clouds of dust. And yet the rate of star formation we observe is bizarrely low; the Milky Way, for Keep reading
Breaking Up Turbulence
Under most circumstances, we think about flows changing from ordered and laminar to random and turbulent. But it’s actually possible for disordered flows to become laminar again. This is what Keep reading
Spots of Turbulence
One of the enduring mysteries of fluid dynamics lies in the transition between smooth laminar flow and chaotic turbulent flow in the area near a wall. That region, known as Keep reading