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Canuto 2008, in press

Canuto, V.M., 2008: Turbulence in astrophysical and geophysical flows. In Interdisciplinary Aspects of Turbulence. W. Hillebrandt and F. Kukpa, Eds., Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 756. Springer, in press.

Turbulence is a physical process that enjoys some rather unique characteristics, first among which is the fact that it is among the most ubiquitous phenomena in the physical world and yet is one of the least understood physical processes. Let us just consider that all existing stars (the number of which is around ~1023, not far from the Avogadro's number) use or have used turbulence during different phases of their lifetime. The atmosphere of the earth, a habitat in which we spend all our life, is regularly turbulent and so are the oceans.

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