The whitewater rapids of canoe slalom have their origins in mountain streams. Today the sport’s Olympic venues are artificial rivers, specially designed to provide world-class rapids whatever the geography of Keep reading
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Swirling Fluids
In this video, researchers investigate swirling fluids by studying the shapes of the free surface between air and the liquid. As parameters like the diameter of the glass, initial (unperturbed) Keep reading
Reader Question: Froude vs. Reynolds
@spooferbarnabas asks: I was wondering what the difference is between Froude’s number and Reynold’s number? they seem very similar Fluid dynamicists often use nondimensional numbers to characterize different flows because Keep reading