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Atmospheric turbulence Richardson number austausch coefficient fluid flow Geostrophic motion laminar flow Navier-Stokes equation Stokes’s law Bernoulli’s theorem Torricelli’s law Reynolds number Froude number drag turbulence

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Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán

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Osborne Reynolds

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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