flow around an obstacle

Wu wei means "yielding," as in the way water flows around an obstacle by taking the path of least resistance.

The narrative has to find a way around it, like water has to flow around an obstacle, and the result is that the whole enterprise is given form.

Mesoscale eddies can be split into two categories: static eddies, caused by flow around an obstacle (see image), and transient eddies, caused by baroclinic (Baroclinicity) instability.