Sentences with phrase «understand turbulent flow»

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Understanding mixing dynamics will help researchers with a long - term goal of visualizing the turbulent flows of an entire giant star, one similar to the sun.

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.

This phenomenon ends up producing a completely turbulent flow, whose nature is not yet well understood.

«Understanding the physics of turbulent flows inside turbines.»

The Southampton research team, led by Richard Sandberg, Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Aeroacoustics, and including Dr Andrew Wheeler and Professor Neil Sandham, has identified that Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), a model - free approach based on first principles (no assumptions or modelling are used) can help to develop an improved understanding of the role of turbulent phenomena in the flow - field and determine the validity of current turbulence modelling.

The group also measures the turbulent air flow to understand how it interacts with the drifting snow.

The researchers took high - resolution mean and fluctuating velocity and density field measurements in an RM flow, which was shocked and reshocked, to understand production and dissipation in a two - fluid, developing turbulent flow field.

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.