Water bottle flipping has become quite the craze, and in a recent video The Backyard Scientist presented his own take on the subject, testing whether you could flip a bottle Keep reading
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Other Ig Nobel Fluids
To round out our series on fluid dynamics in the Ig Nobel Prizes (which are not the same thing as the actual Nobel Prizes), here are some of the other winners. Last Keep reading
Sloshing in a Bouncing Sphere
The sloshing of liquids inside solids is usually presented as a difficulty to overcome, as with the transport of tanks, the motion of fuel in satellites, or even the problem Keep reading
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
Sloshing to Dampen
In this high-speed video, two flexible spheres are dropped from the same height. The one on the left is filled with air, the other is partially filled with a liquid. Keep reading
Sloshing Dynamics
[original media no longer available] Sloshing refers to the motion of a liquid inside a moving container, for example, in tanker trucks or inside a spacecraft’s fuel tank. The motion Keep reading