While the experimental techniques that have been invaluable in understanding phase transitions promise to be very useful in the study of hydrodynamic phenomena, I suspect that the recent addition to our theoretical arsenal may be less effective than many had hoped (Martin, 1976). I think that the k-space decomposition does actually obscure the physics (Moffatt, 1990a).
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(2009). Methods of Describing and Studying Turbulent Flows. In: Tsinober, A. (eds) An Informal Conceptual Introduction to Turbulence. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3174-7_3
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