Viscosity Quotes (1)
Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
[Concerning atmospheric turbulence.]
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
[Concerning atmospheric turbulence.]
Weather Prediction by Numerical Process (1922), 66. Quoted in Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1977), 402.
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