If solved
Predictable Turbulence
Turbulent flows in engineering and nature are predicted from a theory or from models with proven accuracy and error bars.
Open in the interactive tree →This would combine a statistical theory of turbulence with closure models that are validated far beyond the flows they were trained on. Designers would no longer rely on case-by-case tuning of models against wind-tunnel data.
What it brings
- Aircraft, ship and turbine design with predicted rather than tuned drag
- Weather and ocean models with fewer turbulence fudge factors
- Flow simulations with guaranteed error bounds