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Why is turbulence generated?

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The theory, as written by Reynolds himself, is that turbulence is generated as an instability about steady laminar flow, where the onset of the instability is controlled by whether the Reynolds number, Re, of the flow is larger than a critical Reynolds number. read more

Turbulence is commonly observed in everyday phenomena such as surf, fast flowing rivers, billowing storm clouds, or smoke from a chimney, and most fluid flows occurring in nature and created in engineering applications are turbulent. read more

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