Difference between revisions
turbulence
Source +0 −0
… 20 unchanged lines
Revision 93 as rendered
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.
Related problems
- The original curation links this problem to Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness; the argument for the link has not been written yet.