Even adding a small amount of polymers to a fluid can drastically change its behavior. Often polymer-doped fluids act more like soft solids, able to hold their shape like your Keep reading
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Flow Between Fibers
Two vertical fibers, with a gap left between them, form a playground for flow in this Gallery of Fluid Motion video. If the fiber spacing is small enough, the flow Keep reading
“Keeping Our Sheet Together”
When two liquid jets collide, they form a falling liquid sheet. Here researchers explore how that sheet breaks up when the liquids involved contain polymers. The intact areas of the Keep reading
The Shape of Splashes
When a wedge falls into a pool, it creates a distinctive, doubly-curved splash. Here’s how it works. When the front of the wedge first enters the water, it creates a Keep reading
Rim Break-Up
Splashing drops often expand into a liquid sheet and spray droplets from an unstable rim. Although this behavior is key to many natural and industrial processes, including disease transmission and Keep reading
The Fishbone
The simple collision of two liquid jets can form striking and beautiful patterns. Here the two jets strike one another diagonally near the top of the animation. One is slanted Keep reading
“Galaxy Gates”
Viewing fluids through a macro lens makes for an incredible playground. In “Galaxy Gates”, Thomas Blanchard and the artists of Oilhack explore a colorful and dynamic landscape of paint, oil, Keep reading
Breaking Up
Liquid sheets break down in a process known as atomization. Above are top and side views of a liquid sheet created by two identical liquid jets impacting head-on. The jets Keep reading
A Particle-Filled Splash
A drop of water that impacts a flat post will form a liquid sheet that eventually breaks apart into droplets when surface tension can no longer hold the water together Keep reading
Piazza del Popolo
The lions of the fountain in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo eject a turbulent sheet of water. Random fluctuations in the water sheet cause holes to form. Driven by surface tension, Keep reading