Nigel Goldenfeld

Date

21 September 2022

Host

Roman Stocker

Title

The Life and Death of Turbulence

Abstract

I propose that turbulence is fruitfully regarded as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.  This perspective predicts turbulent drag scaling behavior & shows that the laminar-turbulence transition is a directed percolation phase transition.  Both results have been tested experimentally. Our work connects transitional turbulence with renormalization group theory, high energy hadron scattering, extreme events, & population biology.