With $4 million in support from the New York-based Simons Foundation, an international team of researchers including Gregory Eyink of Johns Hopkins Engineering\u2019s Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics is embarking on a study aimed at understanding fluid turbulence from a physics perspective.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur hope is that this collaboration will help to generate fundamental new points of view and progress on understanding turbulence,\u201d said Eyink.<\/p>\n
The Simons support comes in the form of grants to four groups, each spearheaded by a researcher with distinct\u2014but overlapping\u2014expertise in fluid turbulence, including Nigel Goldenfeld at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Bj\u00f6rn Hoff of Austria\u2019s Institute of Science and Technology; Gregory Falkovich of Israel\u2019s Weizmann Institute; \u00a0and Eyink at Johns Hopkins. Work began on September 1.<\/p>\n
“Most fluids encountered in our everyday life are in a turbulent state: wakes behind speeding vehicles, pots of boiling water on a stove, or oceans stirred by wind currents and tides,\u201d explains Eyink. \u201cThe enhanced dissipation from turbulent drag wastes huge amounts of energy, and engineers want to find ways to reduce it. The enhanced mixing of water density by deep ocean turbulence plays a crucial role in the global circulation and Earth’s climate. Our project will focus, in particular. on fluid flows interacting with walls, boundaries and obstacles, which is the most common form of terrestrial turbulence.”<\/p>\n
The Simons Foundation\u2019s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences, and its Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division supports research in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science by providing funding for individuals, institutions and science infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur aim is to interact with and complement the existing efforts in this area of both engineers and mathematicians,\u201d Eyink said. \u201cThis is especially the case here at JHU, where there is an extremely strong tradition of turbulence research, including our own Turbulence Database Group, which is a multi-department effort involving mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science, and physics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-14092","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-awards-and-honors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n