Turbulence

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion exhibiting 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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Turbulence”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: C. Fukushima and J. Westerweel, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.