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Self-organizing Flow Technology

– in Viktor Schauberger’s Footsteps

Lars Johansson

Morten Ovesen

Curt Hallberg

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Lars JohanssonMorten Ovesen

Curt Hallberg

Self-organizing Flow Technology – in Viktor Schauberger’s Footsteps

This report tries to evolve a new perspective on the ideas of the Austrian

naturalist Viktor Schauberger, with the aid of concepts from modern

research into chaotic and self-organizing systems. The focus of the report

is on modelling. With the aid of concepts like self-organization, free and

forced vortex flow, chaotic pulsation, mathematical bifurcations and

minimal surfaces, and with flow images like “handkerchief dynamics”

and “toroidal vortex flow”, we try to sketch a natural sciences perspective

that comes close to Schauberger's.

We replicate the Stuttgart experiments with vortex generation and particle separation, and give an overview of existing research in the area.

The report also covers applications such as oxygenation of water, e.g. in

fish ponds, bathing facilities, and sewage plants, and particle separation,

e.g. in laundry plants, the food industry, and paper-mill industry. Some

perspectives are also given on restoration of natural waterways and minor

lakes or bays.

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