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From reader jessecaps who hung it on the office door. I expect this joke will make sense to very few but as someone who once dabbled in turbulence, I could not resist.
Tag: humor
“Tidal Wave” vs. “Tsunami”
This is part of the trouble when the same term has a scientific meaning and a lay meaning. See also: fluid.
Flow Visualization
This video, created by undergraduates as part of a fluid dynamics laboratory course, shows flow visualization of a von Karman vortex street in the wake of a cylinder in comparison to a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of the same phenomenon. If you’re wondering about the black-and-white segments and the peculiar speech patterns, look no further. The students are parodying a series of videos made by MIT in the 1960s that are still used in classrooms today.
Non-Newtonian Fluids
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Non-Newtonian fluids have even made it into pop culture. #
