Summary
Turbulent motion of fluids appears in many important settings, including weather systems, ocean currents, aircraft flows, wind energy, and industrial mixing. Turbulence looks extremely complicated with swirls of many different sizes. This project addresses a fundamental puzzle: why does violent, intense turbulence often result in little net energy transfer between swirls of different sizes? The reason is that energy does not move one way. Instead, it moves forward and backward between large and small swirls, resembling a tug-of-war where both sides pull hard, but the rope barely moves. The d
