Yellowstone may get top billing, but Wyoming is home to more fluid dynamical wonders, like the world’s largest rhythmic spring. Located a little outside Afton, WY, Intermittent Spring — as Keep reading
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Building a Water-Based Computer
Having previously tackled the “greedy” self-starting siphon, Steve Mould set out to build a water-based computer capable of adding simple numbers. To do this, he had to build logic gates Keep reading
The Greedy Cup in Your Washing Machine
A Pythagorean, or “greedy” cup, is one that automatically drains itself once filled to a certain level. In other words, it’s a self-starting siphon – one that triggers only at Keep reading
Self-Started Siphoning
Here’s a fun activity you can do while you #StayHome: build a self-starting siphon. Michael from VSauce explains how in this video. Moving fluids from one location to another is Keep reading
The Pythagorean Cup
According to legend, Pythagoras invented a cup to prevent his students from drinking too greedily. If they overfilled the cup, it would immediately drain out all the fluid. The trick Keep reading
Fluids Round-up
Here’s to another fluids round-up, our look at some of the interesting fluids-related stories around the web: – Above is a music video by Roman Hill that relies on mixing and Keep reading
Self-Siphoning Stream of Beads
Pull a bit of a long chain out of a container, and you’ll quickly find the beads take on a life of their own, siphoning out of the jar while Keep reading
Fano Flow
Adding polymers to fluids can lead to strangely counter-intuitive behavior. Here two examples of bizarre extensional flow, sometimes called Fano flow, are shown. First, in the “tubeless siphon” fluid is drawn Keep reading