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If someone asked you to mathematically describe the flow of air in this picture, you would probably just blink a lot and smile winningly - or run as fast as possible in the other direction. Even aerodynamicists are intimidated by the challenge of understanding what happens in the boundary layers around airfoils, cars, and golf balls. That's why George Haller and Thomas Peacock of MIT are feeling good this week: They've developed, and tested experimentally, a new mathematical theory that can predict exactly where the separation of flow occurs in unsteady, three-dimensional, real-life conditions. More »
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