AA highlight - Asymmetric flows
For decades, an unexpected phenomenon has puzzled fluid mechanics researchers: asymmetric flows that defy conventional predictions. Traditionally, researchers thought that symmetric objects would generate symmetric fluid flows around them. But a growing body of research reveals a more complex reality.
A&A’s Professor Owen Williams, along with Professor Alexander Smits of Princeton, are shedding light on this problem in an upcoming review paper for the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. Their work exposes a widespread yet underreported issue that has significant implications for vehicle design and safety.