Close-up of turbulence: thin structures carried, bent and stretched over time

jo_brandstetter · x · 2026-10-26

With a visual, the thread zooms into turbulence's fine structures: the surrounding flow carries them along, bending and stretching them. A shape that looks simple in one frame becomes part of a complicated interaction unfolding in space and time.

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