University of Bayreuth, Press Release Nr. 074/2022 - 13 May 2022
In "Nature Communications": Computer simulations make turbulent mixing more predictable
Turbulent mixing occurs more often in everyday life than we perhaps realize: when milk is stirred into coffee, when gasoline is distributed in a car engine’s cylinder, or when dust particles are whirled up into the atmosphere. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Michael Wilczek at the University of Bayreuth and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen has now used computer simulations to show that these processes are less unpredictable than they seem. The focus is on the structural changes that substances undergo in turbulent flows. The scientists present their research results in "Nature Communications".
A material line is strongly deformed by turbulent flow.
MPI-DS/UBT, M. Wilczek.