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The understanding and prediction of turbulent flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

P. Bradshaw
P. Bradshaw*
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Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
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It was easy for me to choose a subject for this lecture. First, turbulence is an important part of engineering fluid dynamics which has not so far been treated in the Reynolds-Prandtl lectures; secondly, it is the most obvious link between the careers of our two heroes; and thirdly it is the only scientific subject on which I am even remotely qualified to lecture before such a distinguished audience. The first and second propositions are sufficiently demonstrated by the annual consumption of something of the order of 1010kg of kerosene to overcome the effects of Reynolds’ stresses in Prandtl’s boundary layers. Have any two human beings ever had such a spectacular memorial? (Yes, Lanchester and Prandtl, to whose induced drag we sacrifice another 1010kg of fuel each year.)

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 76 , Issue 739 , July 1972 , pp. 403 - 418
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1972 

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