{"id":424264,"date":"2018-01-08T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1d118d1bf9d4eee0cb5d5efaaca2a89e"},"modified":"2018-01-08T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:00:11","slug":"new-approach-can-save-up-to-95-percent-of-energy-used-for-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=424264","title":{"rendered":"New approach can save up to 95 percent of energy used for pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have assumed that once a flow of a fluid has become turbulent, turbulence would persist. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), including Professor Bj\u00f6rn Hof and co-first authors Jakob K\u00fchnen and Baofang Song, have now shown that this is not the case. In their experiments, which they published in Nature Physics, they destabilized turbulence in a pipe so that the flow turned to a laminar (non-turbulent) state, and they observed that the flow remained laminar thereafter. Eliminating turbulence can save as much as 95 percent of the energy required to pump a fluid through a pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have assumed that once a flow of a fluid has become turbulent, turbulence would persist. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), including Professor Bj&ouml;rn Hof and co-first authors Jakob K&uuml;hnen and Baofang Song, have now shown that this is not the case. In their experiments, which they published in Nature Physics, they destabilized turbulence in a pipe so that the flow turned to a laminar (non-turbulent) state, and they observed that the flow remained laminar thereafter. Eliminating turbulence can save as much as 95 percent of the energy required to pump a fluid through a pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424265,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424264\/revisions\/424265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}