Roughness-induced critical phenomena in a turbulent flow.
I present empirical evidence that turbulent flows are closely analogous to critical phenomena, from a reanalysis of friction factor measurements in rough pipes. The data collapse found here corresponds to Widom scaling near critical points, and implies that a full understanding of turbulence requires explicit accounting for boundary roughness.
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Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois, 61801-3080, USA.