Penn Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia
Penn Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia
Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows about turbulence, or when the flow of a fluid — in this case, the flow of air over the wings — becomes chaotic and unstable. For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales with inertia, and so massive things, like planes, have an easier time causing it.