This brings to mind Einstein's paper on meanders in rivers, in which he builds a solution from the behavior of tea leaves swirling in a teacup.
I don't think we should discard the value of the work based solely on the quotidian nature of the examples. (That said, I don't know enough about fluid dynamics to judge whether there's something novel going on in the paper, or if it's just people being clever.)
I don't think we should discard the value of the work based solely on the quotidian nature of the examples. (That said, I don't know enough about fluid dynamics to judge whether there's something novel going on in the paper, or if it's just people being clever.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=9fJkBqwDD3sC&pg=PA249&lpg=...