This paper describes how our understanding of turbulence has grown out of engineering practice and how, in turn, it has modified that practice. This is illustrated by discussions of a number of important combustion phenomena embracing steam and gasoline engines, gas turbines, furnaces, jet fires, fire breathing, and atmospheric explosions.
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