Examples of rotating turbulence (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Examples of rotating turbulence

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By rehabilitating Taylor-Couette flows with Kolmogorov’s small-scale universality, researchers have created a powerful baseline for the study of various phenomena involving rotational turbulence, both in theory and practice, like weather systems, engines, or planets forming around distant stars.

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Typhoon and propeller wake: NASA via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Accretion disk visualization: P. Marenfeld and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

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