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Turbulence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Theodor von Karman
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When I received the invitation to deliver this Memorial Lecture, and “Turbulence” was chosen as the subject, I remembered that my good friend, G. I. Taylor, gave a very stimulating talk on the same subject ten years ago. It was his G. I. Symons Memorial Lecture before the Royal Meteorological Society. He succeeded in fulfilling his job without using one mathematical symbol, the President of the Society, Sir Gilbert Walker, insisting very definitely that “turbulence without tears” was what he wanted. I do not think that I can duplicate Taylor's achievement completely; however, I shall try to reduce the mathematics to a minimum.

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Research Article
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 324 , December 1937 , pp. 1109 - 1143
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1937

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Note on page No 1122 * For an attempt in this direction see Howarth, , Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 154 (1936), p. 364 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

Note on page No 1124 * This assumption was substantiated by a more detailed discussion of the problem by S. Goldstein, R. & M. 1763. He found as criterion, that a roughness element of the height h does not produce any effect on the main flow: , where R c is of the order of 30 ~ 50.