Whichever the winner is, not many are likely to have bet on the the Navier-Stokes equations. In fact, few scientists outside of fluid dynamics know about them, and even fewer outside science. What ...

For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease the surface of a pond have also helped researchers to predict the ...

Nearly 200 years ago, the physicists Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes put the finishing touches on a set of equations that describe how fluids swirl. And for nearly 200 years, the ...

While order often devolves to chaos, sometimes the reverse is true. Turbulent fluid, for example, has a tendency to spontaneously form a tidy pattern: parallel stripes. Though physicists had observed ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...

The equations used to describe flowing water also explain how atmospheres move and even how stars orbit inside galaxies. This ...

Researchers have spent centuries looking for a scenario in which the Euler fluid equations fail. Now a mathematician has finally found one. Mathematicians have suspected for years that under specific ...