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 ...

Dutta developed a computer simulation using the fluid mechanics equations to estimate the optimal wait time, which turned out to be around 15 minutes. "I was surprised and actually a little ...

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 ...