In 2008, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake in China caused the enormous Daguangbao landslide, which loosed over one cubic kilometer of rocks and debris. That material rushed down the mountainside, running more Keep reading
Tag: supercritical fluids
The Driver of Hydraulic Jumps
You’ve seen it a million times. When you turn on your kitchen faucet, the falling water forms a distinctive ring – known as a hydraulic jump – in the bottom Keep reading
Supercritical
Supercritical fluids are neither a gas nor a liquid. The video above shows a tube of pressurized xenon, initially below its boiling point of approximately ~16 deg C. As the Keep reading
Jumps in Stratified Flows
One of the factors that complicates geophysical flows is that both the atmosphere and the ocean are stratified fluids with many stacked layers of differing densities. These variations in density Keep reading
Going Supercritical
Supercritical fluids exist at temperatures and pressures above the critical point, in a region of the phase diagram where there is no clear boundary between the liquid and gaseous state. Keep reading
Supercritical Fluids
A supercritical fluid exists without a distinct liquid or gas phase and forms when temperatures and pressures exceed the substance’s critical point. Here supercritical transition is demonstrated with an ampule of liquid Keep reading
Supercritical Fluids
Supercritical fluids live in the region of a phase diagram beyond the critical point. At these temperatures and pressures, a substance is neither strictly liquid nor a gas but exhibits Keep reading