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longship

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5. Unfortunately the Navier-Stokes equations are difficult to solve

Reply to Tanelorn (Reply #4)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 07:57 AM

Jun 2012

Unlike Newtonian mechanics, which work quite well for predicting two galaxies paths in the future.

Weather and climate are chaotic which is why N-S cannot be solved accurately in the far future.

The only thing climatologists can do is model the systems the best they can.

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