Landau-Hopf theory of turbulence

In physics, the Landau-Hopf theory of turbulence, named for Lev Landau and Eberhard Hopf, was until the mid 1970s the accepted theory of how a fluid flow becomes turbulent. The theory says that as a fluid flows faster, it develops more and more Fourier modes. At first a few modes dominate, but under stronger forcing the modes become power-law distributed, as in Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence.

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• E. Hopf (1948). "A mathematical example displaying the features of turbulence". Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 1 303–322.