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Understanding hydrodynamic turbulence on the basis of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
David Ruelle - Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)
Location: Hill 705
Date & time: Thursday, 19 April 2018 at 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Abstract: This is in the spirit of the Kolmogorov theory of turbulence, but we find that a natural study of fluctuations leads to a quantitative understanding of ‘intermittency’ which is not accounted for by Kolmogorov. I