Brute force of turbulence

The Focused Action of Surface Tension versus the Brute Force of Turbulence - Scaleable Microchannel-based Process Intensification using Monoliths... 

As a result, most of the equipment heralded in process intensification not only intensifies chemical conversion per unit volume, but also intensifies the mechanical-energy dissipation per unit volume. This is the brute force of turbulence that the title alludes to most intensified technologies rely on turbulence to beat the fluids - in some way or other - into high contact area and thin boundary layers. 

Using the techniques discussed in section III and IV we have been able to study the effect of acceleration on ignition of a homogeneous fuel oxydizer mixture. The ability to study multidimensional effects (buoyancy, turbulence etc.) hinges on the use of numerical methods (slow-flow, asymptotic chemistry etc.) which circumvent the time constraints encountered in brute force techniques. These methods go hand in hand with modem fast computers, especially vector machines where judicious programming allows us to attain the actual memory or CPU cycle time. 

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