Why so serious! 🤡



Finally, two years after the first rejection, my first paper was accepted until showing the results obtained by the corresponding unsteady vortex element ("balls and sticks") method, based on the same original steady concepts. By the way, who is the lord of the cats?

And now, the most difficult reasoning test ever:

1. Viscosity is related to attached fluids as well as inviscidity is related to:
a) Also, attached fluids 🙈 b) Neither attached nor detached but all the opposite 🤡
c) Detached flows 🙉 d) Only God knows 😇

"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest". —Hermann Hesse

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  1. Juanito PerezAugust 2, 2024 at 12:16 PM

    Pienso que quizás gran parte del rechazo a publicar su artículo fue debido a que no las envio a las revistas correctas...por cierto sería interesante leer un blog donde explique la forma en como respondió a los reviosres que rechazaron y aceptaron sus publicaciones. Para mi es increible como un razonamiento tan basico puede cambiar la forma en como se entienden los fluidos, pues normalmente nos hacemos la idea que esta un area muy complicada reservada solo para algunos "elegidos"...
    Una disclupa por escribir en español.

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    1. Carlos PimentelAugust 3, 2024 at 8:47 AM

      Hola Juanito!

      El problema con la complejidad de la dinámica de fluidos radica en que los fundamentos nos han sido comprendidos por completo, de ahí viene que se tengan que utilizar artilugios (como los modelos de turbulencia) para intentar "cerrar" las ecuaciones y hacer calzar con los resultados esperados.

      Quizá más adelante escriba algo al respecto de lo que mencionas, aunque en principio me aseguré de que tales revistas hubiesen publicado algo relativo a los métodos utilizados (redes de vórtices o de paneles).

      Gracias por tu comentario.

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