
History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 10, 2022)
The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
The Evolution of Fluid Mechanics
By the 1930s and 1940s there were a whole variety of labs popping up particularly as jet engines started to be developed. The Navier-Stokes equations are fundamentally hard to solve because you end up with a wide range of scales of behavior. So for example those eddies that I was mentioning you could have a very big eddy that's the size of an aeroplane and it can get broken down into very little eddies that are like an inch across. You have to kind of model all of those to be able to figure out things about the flow around the aeroplane.
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