Shearing layers is a concept coined by architect Frank Duffy, which was later elaborated by Stewart Brand in his book, How Buildings Learn: What Happens...

boundary layers can be loosely classified according to their structure and the circumstances under which they are created. The thin shear layer which develops...

on it. Every layer can exist without the layers above it, and requires the layers below it to function. Another common view is that layers do not always...

in the layer of fluid close to the surface. The flow can be externally, around a body, or internally, in an enclosed passage. Boundary layers can be either...

Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Abstraction layer Multitier architecture Shearing layers Lakos, John (1997). Large-scale C++ software design'. Addison-Wesley...

pilots on rare occasions. Wind shear can also produce wave. This occurs when an atmospheric inversion separates two layers with a marked difference in wind...

perpendicular to the force. Wall shear stress expresses the retarding force (per unit area) from a wall in the layers of a fluid flowing next to the wall...

nutrients from the lower layer into the upper layer. Nutrient fluxes through the pycnocline are lower than at other surface layers. The microbial loop is...

inherited, formed due to the orientation of pre-shearing layering or formed due to instability within the shear flow. Recently deposited sediments are normally...

C_{2\varepsilon }=1.92} The k-ε model has been tailored specifically for planar shear layers and recirculating flows. This model is the most widely used and validated...

human-centered community. Among other things, the book details the notion of Shearing layers. Criticism of the architect Richard Rogers was removed from the UK...

by Vagn Walfrid Ekman. Ekman layers occur both in the atmosphere and in the ocean. There are two types of Ekman layers. The first type occurs at the...

behavior is known as the critical shear rate. When shearing a concentrated stabilized solution at a relatively low shear rate, the repulsive particle-particle...

reported in 2012, by shearing a square graphite mesa a few micrometers across, and observing the self-retraction of the sheared layer. Such effects were...

a closed loop across the shear layer between two airmasses in relative movement, e.g. stationary air in a valley, and a layer of wind above the valley...

architecture Rule of thumb – Approximate method for doing something Shearing layers Systems theory – Interdisciplinary study of systems Typology (urban...

in a bounded shear flow (such as boundary layer and channel flow). It is one of the more common methods by which a laminar bounded shear flow transitions...

in a stream, to a velocity that relates shear between layers of flow. Shear velocity is used to describe shear-related motion in moving fluids. It is used...

source of jet noise is the turbulent mixing of shear layers in the engine's exhaust. These shear layers contain instabilities that lead to highly turbulent...

two Ekman layers. The structure of D {\displaystyle {\mathcal {D}}} is the Stewartson layer. The Stewartson layer consists of two outer layers, one on the...

rapidly than outer disk regions), and shear layers often break down into turbulent flow. The presence of shear-generated turbulence, in turn, produces...

Saffman, P. G. (18 September 1969). "The Structure of Free Vertical Shear Layers in a Rotating Fluid and the Motion Produced by a Slowly Rising Body"...

mapping is also called shear transformation, transvection, or just shearing. The transformations can be applied with a shear matrix or transvection,...

k-omega is used in the inner region of the boundary layer and switches to the k-epsilon in the free shear flow. The SST two equation turbulence model was...

thin layers has been debated for a long time due to the vast diversity of plankton, instrumentation, and environmental conditions. Thin layers have distinct...

number is caused by small-scale instabilities from the separation of the shear layer. Knowing Newton's second law stating force is equivalent to mass times...

which arise from shearing the fluid do not depend on the distance the fluid has been sheared; rather, they depend on how quickly the shearing occurs. Viscosity...

to 100 m or so (within the surface layer), with near constant average wind speed up through 1000 m. The shearing of the wind is usually three-dimensional...

PC-9801. LALF's terminology for layers is "cells", after the concept of drawing animation frames over-top of a stencil. Layers were introduced in Western markets...

continuous and the density is discontinuous. A strong expansion wave or shear layer may also contain high gradient regions which appear to be a discontinuity...