Turbulent in a sentence as an adjective

Above that turbulent layer, you just have cold dry air.

In most turbulent situations the brain is wrong and the instruments are right.

- the people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.

Switching to helium cuts the momentum in these turbulent flows to a seventh of what they would be with air.

\n And in swelling it became more tenuous, less brilliant, less turbulent.

The flight computers in a Boeing can track with an error of less than 500ft except in the most turbulent conditions.

Just one single "lubricant atom" had a profound effect on the turbulent particle flow within the "tube.

Reading charitably, turbulent flow might be called a form of separated flow, and this must be what the author means.

I haven't been following the story as closely as many, but it seems that he has crossed into more turbulent waters.

[2] However, due to turbulent flow around the wings during re-entry, some parts of Skylon would need to be actively cooled.

No, I've a masters degree in Physics, and did several research projects on turbulent/laminar flow.

I could write a bit more, but the summary of what I would say, having lived in India for about 10 years, mostly during my turbulent teens, is:1.

The dimples are turbulators meant to induce turbulent flow around the golf ball before the laminar flow would otherwise give way to flow separation.

Since the angle of attack is controlled, the only way the lifting body can stall is if it is suddenly immersed in a continuous stream of fully turbulent air.

There's still opportunity in this turbulent system though to pick winners, and be a shareholder that rewards competence and punishes incompetence.

Unfortunately in professional contexts, many of us do that learning on the job, exhausting out a turbulent jet wake of too-clever code, upsetting those who follow.

A CFD sim will show nearly the same results for a given problem, and current CFD lacks the fidelity to really model tiny turbulent features at these scales as well as the necessary fine surface definition.

From the Army Times article:That crash landing might have been caused by a phenomenon known as settling with power, which occurs when a helicopter descends too quickly because its rotors cannot get the lift required from the turbulent air of their own downwash.

Bigger but this [1] test by Armadillo was more impressive in my opinion for the additional complexity involved in cutting the engine deploying a chute then cutting the chute and successfully landing from a turbulent freefall.

Its first priority is not revolution but protection — protection of the city’s environment, architectural heritage, neighborhoods, diversity, and overall quality of life from the radical transformations of turbulent American capitalism.

> protection of the city’s environment, architectural heritage, neighborhoods, diversity, and overall quality of life from the radical transformations of turbulent American capitalism...and ironically creating some of America's highest market rents in the process.

Turbulent definitions

adjective

characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"

See also: disruptive riotous troubled tumultuous

adjective

(of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids"

See also: churning roiling roiled roily