I had a customer who was thermal printing strip steel. The steel is washed with solvents and blown dry. He was having a problem: When the strip's speed increased, the thermo printer would catch fire.

Turbulence makes many people uneasy or downright queasy. And it's given researchers a headache, too. Mathematicians have been trying for a century or more to understand the turbulence that arises when ...

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Natural convection arises when buoyancy forces, induced by temperature differences, set a fluid in motion along a surface. In boundary layer flows, a thin thermal layer develops adjacent to heated or ...