This visualization shows moderately large pressure fluctuations within a 35-trillion-grid-point turbulence simulation, including 5x and 25x zoom-in views. The negative fluctuations organize into ...

Turbulent flows, long thought to follow fixed rules of energy transfer, may be more flexible than previously believed.

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

A little bit of turbulence is a common experience for air travelers. Severe incidents are rare—but when they occur they can be deadly. The recent Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to ...

Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have performed the largest direct numerical ...