When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Insect flight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_flight

    The Reynolds number is a measure of turbulence; flow is laminar (smooth) when the Reynolds number is low, and turbulent when it is high. [11] The Wagner effect was ignored, consciously, in at least one model. [9] One of the most important phenomena that occurs during insect flight is leading edge suction.

  3. Turbulence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence

    In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity. It is in contrast to laminar flow , which occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers with no disruption between those layers.

  4. Clear-air turbulence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-air_turbulence

    Although the vast majority of cases of turbulence are harmless, in rare cases cabin crew and passengers on aircraft have been injured when tossed around inside an aircraft cabin during extreme turbulence. In a small number of cases, people have been killed and at least one aircraft disintegrated mid-air.

  5. Vortex ring - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring

    The Fraenkel-Norbury model of isolated vortex ring, sometimes referred as the standard model, refers to the class of steady vortex rings having a linear distribution of vorticity in the core and parametrised by the mean core radius = /, where is the area of the vortex core and is the radius of the ring.

  6. Aerodynamics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics

    Aerodynamicists disagree over the precise definition of hypersonic flow; a rough definition considers flows with Mach numbers above 5 to be hypersonic. [6] The influence of viscosity on the flow dictates a third classification. Some problems may encounter only very small viscous effects, in which case viscosity can be considered to be negligible.

  7. Winds of change: King's metaphors for life's turbulence shape ...

    www.aol.com/winds-change-kings-metaphors-lifes...

    This weekend we honor the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., remembering his life, his example, his impact on the nation.

  8. What is aircraft turbulence and how common is it? - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/explainer-aircraft-turbulence...

    WHAT IS TURBULENCE? Turbulence or pockets of disturbed air can have many causes, most obviously the unstable weather patterns that trigger storms, according to an industry briefing by planemaker ...

  9. Turbulence modeling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence_modeling

    SST (Menter's shear stress transport) turbulence model [11] is a widely used and robust two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence model used in computational fluid dynamics. The model combines the k-omega turbulence model and K-epsilon turbulence model such that the k-omega is used in the inner region of the boundary layer and switches to the k ...