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The Oxford English Dictionary defines turbulent flow of a fluid as one in which the velocity at any point fluctuates irregularly and there is continual mixing, rather than a steady flow pattern. As the first example of the use of this adjective, the dictionary quotes a sentence from the classical book by H. Lamb, Hydrodynamics (1895): “The resistance, in the case of turbulent flow, is found to be sensibly independent…of the viscosity of the fluid.”
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Regev, O., Umurhan, O.M., Yecko, P.A. (2016). Turbulence. In: Modern Fluid Dynamics for Physics and Astrophysics. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3164-4_9
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