Thursday, December 15, 2011

RG theory of turbulence

The renormalisation group and scaling has proven to be an extremely powerful technique in theoretical physics. It has even been succesfully  applied to turbulence. A paper by Yakhot and Orczag in the Journal of Scientific Computing (!) is widely cited.

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