Thick puddle made thin

Hamid Kellay (1)

1 LOMA - Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d'Aquitaine

For turbulent flows, the energy transfer between large and small whirls depends on the dimension of the fluid. Imposing large-scale shear on a three-dimensional system can unexpectedly induce two-dimensional behaviour.

Domaines: Matière Molle [cond-mat.soft]; Dynamique des Fluides [physics.flu-dyn]

Hamid Kellay. Thick puddle made thin. Nature Physics, 2011, 7, pp.279-280. ⟨10.1038/nphys1948⟩. ⟨hal-00608684⟩