How much stress do pipes undergo when a liquid flows through them, and how does it depend on the degree of curvature of the pipe? Bends in pipes are different than their straight sections because, in ...

Using unconventional statistical mechanics to understand fluid dynamics, a professor helped solve a 150 year old physics problem of how turbulent fluids move through a pipe. In 1883 Osborne Reynolds ...

Modern civilization depends on the transport of liquid and gases in systems of pipes, just as humans depend on the transport of blood through arteries and veins 1. As fluids move through pipes, they ...

We've been using pipes for a long time, but still don't have a clear picture of how turbulence develops within them. A recent study presents a new method to experimentally determine when this shift ...

Physicists have proven -- numerically and experimentally -- that turbulence in fluid flows can be understood and quantified with the help of a small set of special solutions that can be precomputed ...

Trajectories in time traced out by turbulent puffs as they move along a simulated pipe and in experiments, with blue regions indicate the puff "traffic jams." The images on the left are closer to the ...

The researchers' experiment featured transparent walls to allow full visual access, and used a state-of-the-art flow visualization. Credit: Photo: Michael Schatz Turbulence plays a key role in our ...

Turbulence plays a key role in our daily lives, making for bumpy plane rides, affecting weather and climate, limiting the fuel efficiency of the cars we drive, and impacting clean energy technologies.