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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by eru on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:14AM (#15985785)
Navier-Stokes is only incidentally related to real life. It's pure math.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by kindfellow92 on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:02AM (#15986176)
Right, smooth vector fields aren’t actually physically realizable.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by Gibbon1 on Friday December 22, 2017 @02:38AM (#15985863)
Navier Stokes is probably Turing Complete.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by eru on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:47AM (#15986120)
Probably, yes. But the gymnastics required to make it Turing complete are unlikely to be in the regime that describes real fluids.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by Gibbon1 on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:20PM (#15991017)
In the sixties some people experimented with fluidic logic gates.
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Re:Mathematicians Find Wrinkle in Famed Fluid Equations by eru on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:41AM (#16028433)
Those probably relied on friction?
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