Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest

Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by earthscienceman on Thursday February 10, 2022 @07:15PM (#30294903)

If this is as important as it seems, why is it taking so much time from publication for journals like Scientific American to pick up on it? The paper authors, Birnir et al, seem to have done a very good job of summarizing their results in a clear and succinct way for a review paper in a letters journal. Kudos to them.

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by gumby on Thursday February 10, 2022 @08:29PM (#30295594)

They are popular journals, not scientific ones and fluid dynamics is apparently not sexy (though planes are — go figure!)

I’m pretty stoked by these results.

(Sorry about the pun)

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by tomcam on Thursday February 10, 2022 @09:13PM (#30295972)

Deep cut but I’ll allow it

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by colechristensen on Thursday February 10, 2022 @11:59PM (#30297190)

It isn’t that important.

It is an incremental, but perhaps significant improvement for describing flow in a certain situation. It is nothing like a general purpose “solution” to turbulence.

Scientific American kind of sucks.

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by willis936 on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:44AM (#30299350)

I mean, the certain situation is the exact problem where fusion reactors are most leaky. Decades of effort has been put into more efficiently computationally modeling plasma turbulence at the boundary.

Yeah Scientific American sucks ass but this is an important area of research and it's ripe for a (or many) breakthroughs.

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by eyegor on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:40PM (#30296626)

It isn't that important, the website just tries to make it seem that way. It's useful, but there were already models to estimate boundary layer turbulence. This is just a better approximation.

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by galangalalgol on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:07PM (#30296382)

Amd why are there still only 7 comments on this? Wasn't this one of the major unsolved problems of physics? If they had used a recurrent learning model to figure it out people would care...

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Re:Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest by golemotron on Thursday February 10, 2022 @10:07PM (#30296380)

Sciam is dealing with a lot of race and gender issues right now, so topics like this are on hold.

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