With the advent of massively parallel computers, the evolution of nonlinear dynamical systems such as fluids and plasmas is being investigated in three dimensions at increasingly high resolutions. Today a typical physical volume is represented by 100 3 grid points, and we may expect the resolution to increase to 1000 3 by the end of the decade.

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