There are two main types of fluid flow - laminar flow, in which the fluid flows smoothly in layers, and turbulent flow, which is characterised by chaotic motion and large amounts of mixing. In this ...

The equations of fluid flow ... called the Reynolds number. In 1883, Belfast-born Osborne Reynolds presented to the Royal Society his experiments with fluids, noting two distinct types of motion ...

The Rayleigh–Taylor instability, a process by which fluids seek to reduce their combined potential energy, plays a key role in all types ... simulated flow reaches a Reynolds number of 32,000 ...