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# does anyone know why my mean flow is of order 1x10^250?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)
# Blimey. That's some heavy flow.
Best get a big box of the super-duper absorbent towels in...
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:20, archived)
# YOU STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND
BOO HOO HOO
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:22, archived)
# Are you wearing drainpipe trousers?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:21, archived)
# no
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:23, archived)
# A tap on the head?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:24, archived)
# which head?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:25, archived)
# witchhead?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:25, archived)
# it's the zonal flow of the atmosphere which is driven by the temperature contrast between equator and the poles.

bloody poles
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:21, archived)
# coming over here, taking our jobs...
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:22, archived)
# they took our jerbs!!
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:23, archived)
# ?
Who are you, and what have you done with Prodigy69?
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:22, archived)
# Fluid flow is often decomposed into mean and deviation from the mean, where the averaging can be done in either space or time,
thus the mean flow is the field of means for all individual grid points.

with age comes wisdom...or copy paste from wiki
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:24, archived)
# *calls for backup*
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:25, archived)
# ah I should mention that this is through a channel geometry at this stage.
and it is supposed to be the solution of a helmholtz like equation for the zeroth fourier mode.

and I really should fix that wiki article...
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:27, archived)
# poles are useful on occasions. mostly they are troublesome.
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 11:24, archived)
# Happy b3taday
\o/
(, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 12:25, archived)