**Dr. Andre Luiz Andrade Simoes**

Laboratory of Turbulence and Rheology, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering, School of engineering at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

#### **Dr. Raquel Jahara Lobosco**

Laboratory of Turbulence and Rheology, Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering, School of engineering at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

#### **References**

Batchelor, G.K. (1953), The theory of homogeneous turbulence. First published in the Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics series 1953. Reissued in the Cambridge Science Classics series 1982 (ISBN: 0 521 04117 1). Bernoulli, D. (1738), Hydrodynamics. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 1968 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN-10: 0486441857. Hydrodynamica, by Daniel Bernoulli, as published by Johann Reinhold Dulsecker at Strassburg in 1738.

Bernoulli, J. (1743), Hydraulics. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 1968 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN-10: 0486441857. Hydraulica, by Johann Bernoulli, as published by Marc-Michel Bousquet et Cie. at Lausanne and Geneva in 1743.

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region covered by the marine currents that transport this oil. Gases or liquids, the changes in the quality of the fluids in which we live, certainly affect our quality of life.

The knowledge about fluids, their movements, and their ability to transport physical properties and compounds is thus recognized as important for life. As a consequence, thinking about new solutions for general or specific problems in Hydromechanics may help to attain a sustainable relationship with our environment. Re-contextualizing the classical discussion about the truth, in which it was suggested that the "thinking" is the guarantee of our "existence" (St. Augustine, 386a, b, 400), we can say that we agree that thinking guarantees the human existence, and that there are too many warriors, and too few thinkers. Following this re-contextualized sense, it was also said that the man is a bridge between the "animal" and "something beyond the man" (Nietzsche, 1883). This is an interesting metaphor, because bridges are built crossing fluids (even abysms are filled with fluids). Considering all possible interpretations of this phrase,

let us study and understand the fluids, and let us help to build the bridge.

**Dr. Harry Edmar Schulz** 

University of Sao Paulo,

University of Sao Paulo,

**Dr. Raquel Jahara Lobosco**

University of Sao Paulo,

Brazil

Brazil

Brazil

Nucleus of Thermal Engineering and Fluids,

School of engineering at Sao Carlos,

**Dr. Andre Luiz Andrade Simoes** 

School of engineering at Sao Carlos,

Laboratory of Turbulence and Rheology,

Laboratory of Turbulence and Rheology,

School of engineering at Sao Carlos,

Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering,

Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering,

Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering,

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Bernoulli, D. (1738), Hydrodynamics. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York,

Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics series 1953. Reissued in the Cambridge Science Classics series 1982 (ISBN: 0 521 04117 1).

1968 (first publication) and reissued in 2005, ISBN-10: 0486441857.


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