When two jets of a viscous liquid collide, they can form a chain-like stream or even a fishbone pattern, depending on the flow rate. This video demonstrates the menagerie of Keep reading
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Measuring Wind Turbines with Snowfall
One of the challenges in large-scale wind energy is that operating wind turbines do not behave exactly as predicted by simulation or wind tunnel experiments. To determine where our models Keep reading
APS DFD etc.
It’s time! The American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting opens in Pittsburgh tomorrow morning. It promises to be a very busy few days. Most of that activity will Keep reading
Avoiding Splashback
Here’s a likely Ig Nobel Prize candidate from the BYU SplashLab: a study of splashing caused by a stream of fluid entering a horizontal body of water or hitting a solid vertical Keep reading
The Cheerios Effect and Tiny Swimmers
Anyone who has eaten a bowl of Cheerios is familiar with the way solid objects floating on a liquid surface will congregate. This is a form of capillary force driven Keep reading
Self-Propelled Droplets
Leidenfrost drops hover and move above hot surfaces on a thin layer of their own vapor. Over a flat surface, this vapor flows radially out from under the droplet, but Keep reading
Shaping and Levitating Droplets
Opposing ultrasonic speakers can be used to trap and levitate droplets against gravity using acoustic pressure. Changes to field strength can do things like bring separate objects together or flatten droplets. Keep reading
Fluid Juggling
It’s that time of the year – the 2013 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting is not far off, and entries to this year’s Gallery of Fluid Motion are starting Keep reading
Thank You!
I have the best readers in the world. Seriously, everyone one of you is amazing. In less than 23 hours, you have blown past the goal I set. I will Keep reading
Help FYFD Get to APS DFD 2013
Readers, I need your help! Funding for my project got cancelled prematurely thanks to sequester-induced budget cuts and my research group no longer has the funds to send me to Keep reading