Abstract
Turbulence even to this day remains one of the most complicated and enigmatic kinds of motion. The phenomenon of turbulence was first discovered in connection with the studies of piped flows of incompressible fluids, and for a long time had been treated as a subject of fluid mechanics. It seems that a chapter on turbulence as a physical phenomenon was for the first time included into a course of statistical physics by the author in 1982 (Klimontovich, iv).
I recall that von Karman, in his opening address, said that, when he finally came face to face with his Creator, the first revelation he would supplicate would be an unfolding of the mysteries of turbulence.
H. Moffatt
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Klimontovich, Y.L. (1991). Turbulent Motion. The Structure of Chaos. In: Turbulent Motion and the Structure of Chaos. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 42. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3426-2_7
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