The Reynolds number is the ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in a fluid flow, which governs the local range of turbulent eddy sizes.

Jörg Schumacher, Paul Götzfried, Janet D. Scheel, Enhanced enstrophy generation for turbulent convection in low-Prandtl-number fluids, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...

Michael Leschziner, Ning Li, Fabrizio Tessicini, Simulating Flow Separation from Continuous Surfaces: Routes to Overcoming the Reynolds Number Barrier, Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, ...

The top of this figure represents the IAG team's large-scale simulation, which captured the complete development of a turbulent boundary layer from low to high Reynolds numbers. As a flow moves ...