Where the number says, and where it happens
Fourteen dimensionless groups on one logarithmic axis. The open circle on each row is the value at which the two terms the group compares are equal, which is one by the way the group is formed; the filled mark is the value at which the thing a reader cares about first changes by 1%. The bar between them is the distance the folklore phrase "of order one" hides, and it runs from nothing at all to a factor of 594.
10 essays call
regime-crossover. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every
call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member
of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.
It is also the blast radius. Changing regime-crossover changes every figure listed here
at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show —
which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.
Where it is called
What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.
- What "of order one" is worth Regimes and numbers
- Where a fluid stops being one Regimes and numbers
- Slow enough to be steady Regimes and numbers
- How small is small enough Regimes and numbers
- The balance that is its own error Regimes and numbers
- The tracer that is not one Regimes and numbers
- The threshold the walls decide Transition and turbulence
- How far before the heat arrives Regimes and numbers
- The film that heats itself Viscosity
- The number that really is one Regimes and numbers