Turbulence | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Turbulence


00:01:36 1 Examples of turbulence
00:05:20 2 Features
00:14:51 3 Onset of turbulence
00:18:09 4 Heat and momentum transfer
00:19:37 5 Kolmogorov's theory of 1941
00:21:42 6 See also
00:31:29 7 References and notes
00:31:38 8 Further reading
00:31:47 8.1 General
00:31:56 8.2 Original scientific research papers and classic monographs



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SUMMARY
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In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is any pattern of fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.  It is in contrast to a laminar flow regime, which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between those layers.Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena such as surf, fast flowing rivers, billowing storm clouds, or smoke from a chimney, and most fluid flows occurring in nature and created in engineering applications are turbulent. Turbulence is caused by excessive kinetic energy in parts of a fluid flow, which overcomes the damping effect of the fluid's viscosity. For this reason turbulence is easier to create in low viscosity fluids, but more  difficult in highly viscous fluids. In general terms, in turbulent flow, unsteady vortices appear of many sizes which interact with each other, consequently drag due to friction effects increases. This would increase the energy needed to pump fluid through a pipe, for instance. However this effect can also be exploited by devices such as aerodynamic spoilers on aircraft, which deliberately "spoil" the laminar flow to increase drag and reduce lift.
The onset of turbulence can be predicted by a dimensionless constant called the Reynolds number, which calculates the balance between kinetic energy and viscous damping in a fluid flow. However, turbulence has long resisted detailed physical analysis, and the interactions within turbulence create a very complex situation. Richard Feynman has described turbulence as the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.