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I am confuse understanding between unsteady and turbulent flow. If I look the fluid simulation in Youtube, they both look the same. What is the difference between them? Please explain for a beginner.
We can divide fluid flows into several types, in this case based on:
- time dependence:
* steady (stationary) flow - fluid properties at any selected point in a system do not change in time
* unsteady (transient) flow - this one is time-dependent
- turbulence:
* laminar - there are no turbulences
* turbulent - turbulations are present in the system
Turbulent flow is generally always unsteady because turbulence is a time-dependent phenomenon. Such flow can be statistically stationary though.
Laminar flow can be either steady or unsteady.