Turbulence in applications

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Turbulent flow is encountered in nature and in many engineering applications. Despite extensive efforts, a complete understanding of turbulent flow appears to remain formidable. Nevertheless, the cumulative advancement achieved, mostly via baby steps approached from a wide variety of perspectives, has shed additional light in recent years. At the fundamental level, clean, isotropic and/or homogeneous turbulence will likely remain an important vehicle for further advancement. Extreme diligence both in experimentation and in data reduction, along with improved analyses (such as wavelet analysis), are necessary to enhance progress along this path. The intended research aims specifically at further exploitation of clean turbulence experimentations and analyses to hasten the pace of progress. Also proposed in parallel is the continuation of detailed studies on the roles of turbulence in aerodynamics (wind turbines), combustion, and air distribution. Some key advantages of the proposed parallel, fundamental-application approaches are: 1) continuous emergence of specifics, from the ongoing engineering research endeavour, available for the fundamental exploration, 2) immediate (realtime) exploitation of modest fundamental progresses onto the applied, engineering research.