Darwinbots Forum

General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Zelos on October 19, 2005, 02:37:14 PM

Title: streams
Post by: Zelos on October 19, 2005, 02:37:14 PM

what is the name of the science on how streams behave?

Title: streams
Post by: Griz on October 19, 2005, 03:01:22 PM

hydrodynamics ... the dynamics of fluids ...
 
~griz~

Title: streams
Post by: Numsgil on October 19, 2005, 03:40:46 PM

Which is a black science (the phrase is my own invention I think.  It's a combination of black magic and science ;)).

Fluids are highly chaotic.  At best presently science can come up with good approximations of what will happen, but every so often something throws fluidicists for a loop, and they just have to shrug and say "heck if I know why, fluids are unpredictable at times."