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Recipe for a storm – EurekAlert
Turbulence is an omnipresent phenomenon – and one of the great mysteries of physics. A research team from the University of Oldenburg in Germany has now succeeded…
IMAGE: The active grid in the wind tunnel can stir up air flows to generate realistic storm turbulence.
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Credit: University of Oldenburg/Mohssen Assanimoghaddam
Strong storms often seem to leave behind random destruction: While the roof tiles of one house are blown away, the neighboring property may not be damaged at all. What causes these differences are wind gusts – or, as physicists say, local turbulence. It results from large-scale atmospheric flows, but up to now, it is impossible…
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