This Article From Issue
January-February 2023
Volume 111, Number 1
Page 3
DOI: 10.1511/2023.111.1.3
To the Editors:
Zellman Warhaft’s “The Art of Turbulence” (November–December 2022) was a delightful read for me. For many years, I have dealt with the world of turbulent fluid flows associated with the engineering design and development of turbomachines, such as turbines and jet engines. It was a pleasure for me to see such flows rendered in text and in the artistic paintings and photos in the article.
One of the article’s referenced authors, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, has been quoted as stating, “Turbulence is the most important unsolved problem in classical physics.” The art in “The Art of Turbulence” deftly shows the importance of Feynman’s statement. The art also makes clear the illuminative rhyming verse on turbulence, given in 1922 by mathematician and physicist Lewis Fry Richardson:
Big whirls have little whirls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity.
Lee S. Langston
Manchester, CT
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