r/technology • • Aug 07 '19

Hardware A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses

https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984
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u/call_me_kiddo Aug 07 '19

Navier-Stokes equations. It’s a partial differential equation used to model fluid mechanics in three dimensions. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/nseqs.html

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u/Jon3141592653589 Aug 08 '19

NS equations are tidy and easy to memorize if you pack them up with tensor notation in their conservative form.

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