Ecology of Turbulence Simulation (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

Ecology of Turbulence Simulation

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Simulations of an ecological model show that an initial patch of prey splits to form predator-prey traveling waves, analogous to the spatiotemporal intermittency of turbulent patches in pipe flow.

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Image courtesy of H.-Y. Shih, T.-L. Hsieh, and N. Goldenfeld, University of Illinois

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