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If this gives us better fluid dynamic models and better designs, it could be huge. Better ship propellers and hulls, cars, trucks, airplanes, jet engines. Wind
by Gravityloss 3y ago
If this gives us better fluid dynamic models and better designs, it could be huge. Better ship propellers and hulls, cars, trucks, airplanes, jet engines. Wind turbines and gas turbines. Also combustion and all kinds of chemical reactions that need mixing.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoMy understanding is that this will not give us any breakthroughs in fluid dynamic modelling capabilities for real life applications. The main challenge for turbulence modelling in applications is to accurately represent the boundary layers around walls, especially where you have transitions and separation. Isotropic turbulence like they have here is well resolved by existing models. Nevertheless it is very cool stuff that you can do this. Although if I am to play devil's advocate, I do wonder at how "isolated" this turbulence actually is, since it's continuously being pumped by eight vortex ring generators.