According to new research led by Philip Marcus of the University of California, Berkeley, and reported in Physical Review Letters in August, vortices in turbulent fluids spontaneously replicate themselves by drawing energy from shear in the surrounding fluid. (scientificamerican.com)
Even the researchers who created this image had a tough time interpreting its complex representation how of turbulent fluids flow in three dimensions. (discovermagazine.com)
4 For example, the Navier - Stokes equations are used all the time to approximate turbulent fluid flows around aircraft and in the bloodstream, but the math behind them still isn't understood. (discovermagazine.com)