The turbulent motion of a tumbling river or the outflow from a jet engine is chaotic: that is, it contains no obvious pattern. But according to a new study, regular patterns can emerge from the ...

Turbulence is one of the great mysteries of modern science. It is also one of the most important, as most of the flows we’re interested in are turbulent. In some applications, such as industrial ...

Three-dimensional simulations shed light on how energy dissipates within non-Newtonian fluids (fluids in which viscosity depend on the shear rate.) The result is valuable in the context of disaster ...

Homogeneity is the most desirable factor in the process of mixing. However, achieving homogeneity is a challenging task for mixing highly viscous materials. A turbine-type mixer creates a chaotic flow ...

Turbulence has famously been called "the last great unsolved problem in classical physics" by Richard Feynman. Indeed, the chaotic nature of turbulence makes it nearly impossible to predict, and we ...

Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics. It’s time to ...

Physicists show how patterns can emerge from chaos in turbulent fluids. The turbulent motion of a tumbling river or the outflow from a jet engine is chaotic: that is, it contains no obvious pattern.