“When I meet God, I’m going to ask him two questions: why relativity? and why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.”

(W. Heisenberg)

Turbulenceis an expression of a very complex behavior of any physical system, sometimeschaotic behavior. The turbulent movement e.g. of liquid evinces in appearingwhirlpools and other coherent structures, the phenomenon of the streamseparation and in the phenomenon of mixing.
 
Thisproject is an attempt to seize turbulent movements of liquids during the flow,as one of the most fascinating examples of the self-organization. However, itisn’t the analysis of turbulence, as phenomena - it is the analysis oftopologies which can come into existence in the course of flow, as an elementshaping the geometry. For the purposes of experiments apparatus was made, beingused for evoking turbulent movements and for the analysis and measurement ofthe result. It is supported by a peculiar system of materials of diversifieddensity. As the liquid, serving the simulation of turbulence heated up paraffinwas used, which in an appropriate temperature keeps properties of free flow. Incontact with other liquids of different temperature (the most often lower)there appears a possibility of strengthening topology created by the flowthrough immediate solidification of joint of two liquids or the whole dependingon the density of colder liquid. The result is 3D scanned and saved as athree-dimensional model which is analyzed with specialist software.
 
An extraction of specific language of parametersexploited during examinations and their analysis in combination are a result ofconducted experiments. It allows to describe the generation of the complicatedtopology evoked by turbulent movements and for drawing up a catalogue ofspecific forms. In further phase it can constitute an interesting base forcreating the topological architectural structures being based on a movement.

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