Cascades and Dissipative Anomalies in Compressible Fluid Turbulence

Abstract

Turbulence is a highly debated topic and often thought to be unsolvable, especially for compressible fluids. A new analysis shows that work by Lars Onsager in the 1940s is applicable to this problem, shedding light on the physics of dissipative anomalies in a compressible fluid. (Image credit: NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (ASU) and M. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC))