Turbulent Boundary Layer

Famous quotes containing the words turbulent, boundary and/or layer:

    “Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?—No—no, ‘tis your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
    —Washington Irving (1783–1859)

    “Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?”
    —Garrett Fort (1900–1945)

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)