SAIFR:4839

The life and death of turbulence

(2024). The life and death of turbulence. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/4839

The life and death of turbulence. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Nov. 13, 2024, https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/4839 

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            url = {https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/4839},
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            keywords = {ICTP-SAIFR, IFT, UNESP},
            language = {en},
            title = {The life and death of turbulence},
            publisher = { ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research},
            year = {2024},
            month = {nov},
            note = {SAIFR:4839 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/ictp-saifr/4839}}
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Nigel Goldenfeld
Talk numberSAIFR:4839
Source RepositoryICTP – SAIFR
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

Turbulence is the last great unsolved problem of classical physics. But there is no consensus on what it would mean to actually solve this problem. In this colloquium, I propose that turbulence is most fruitfully regarded as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and will show that this perspective explains turbulent drag behavior measured over 80 years, and makes predictions that have been experimentally tested in 2D turbulent soap films. I will also explain how this perspective is useful in understanding the laminar-turbulence transition, establishing it as a non-equilibrium phase transition whose critical behavior has been predicted and tested experimentally.  This work connects transitional turbulence with statistical mechanics and renormalization group theory, high energy hadron scattering, the statistics of extreme events, and even population biology.