Turbulence
Kolmogorov's 1941 theory predicts how energy cascades from large eddies to small ones, and measurements confirm it roughly but with systematic deviations called intermittency. Engineers rely on empirical models. Feynman called turbulence the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.
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- The original curation links this problem to Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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The original curation links this problem to Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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- related to Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness open
The original curation links this problem to Turbulence; the argument for the link has not been written yet.
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