www.princeton.edu...Howard Stone, a professor in Princeton's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has some unique insights into life at low Reynolds numbers.
With regard to the Reynolds number for a flow, it is similar to many dynamics problems. You apply a force (in this case you can think of the pressure of the fluid) and then you ask whether the force accelerates the fluid, the inertia-dominated limit, or whether the force is needed to overcome the "friction" of the flow, the viscosity-dominated limit. High Reynolds number flows are dominated by inertia and low Reynolds number flows are dominated by viscosity.
Professor Stone and his students utilize a mix of theory, computer simulations, and experiments to understand complex fluid dynamics problems, the majority of which have practical real world applications.
More info on Howard Stone:
http://www.princeton.edu/mae/people/f...
http://www.princeton.edu/~stonelab/
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