Today’s post is largely brought to you by the fact that I have been sick the past four days and my fiance and I have been bingeing on Star Trek Keep reading
Tag: Mach number
Fluids Round-up – 27 July 2013
Fluids round-up time! Here are our latest fluidsy links from around the web: Science@NASA explains how to use capillary action to drink one’s coffee in microgravity. (via io9) Nature is not exactly a quiet Keep reading
Homemade Hybrid Rocket Engine
In this video, Ben Krasnow details and demos a small hybrid rocket engine he built in his workshop. Hybrid rockets utilize propellants that are two different states of matter, in 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