Multiflux as the Thermodynamic Ground State and Laminar Flow as the Forced Exception
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We overturn the 140-year-old paradigm that treats laminar flow as the “natural” state of fluid motion and turbulence as a mere instability. Using analytical reasoning, public DNS evidence, and two decisive everyday experiments reproducible by any child — the coffee-cup plume and the stirred-glass experiment — we prove that the true thermodynamic ground state of viscous incompressible flow is the multiflux regime: a small finite number (N ≈ 8–12) of quasi-coherent sub-flows that spontaneously emerge to minimise dissipation. Laminar flow with finite velocity (N = 1) is demonstrated to be a highly excited, energy-intensive metastable state that Nature never chooses spontaneously. The only stationary states tolerated without continuous ordered forcing are N = 0 (perfect rest) and N ≈ 8–12 (multiflux). This single insight simultaneously resolves the physical nature of turbulence, explains drag crises in engineering, and provides an ontological proof of global regularity of the 3D Navier–Stokes and Euler equations.
Author: SOBRAL, DIOGENES DUARTE
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7108657180
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