Inside or outside, we encounter a lot of fluid dynamics every day. Here are some examples you might have noticed, especially on a rainy day: Worthington Jets After a drop Keep reading
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Raindrops in Puddles
Watching rain drops hit a puddle or lake is remarkably fascinating. Each drop creates a little cavity in the water surface when it impacts. Large, energetic drops will create a Keep reading
Liquid Umbrella
When a water drop strikes a pool, it can form a cavity in the free surface that will rebound into a jet. If a well-timed second drop hits that jet Keep reading
Liquid Sculptures
[original media no longer available] Water sculptures–a marriage of liquids, photography, and timing–are spectacular form of fluid dynamics as art. Artist Markus Reugels is a master of the form. This Keep reading
Reader Question: Non-Coalescing Droplets
Reader ancientavian asks: I’ve often noticed that, when water splashes (especially as with raindrops or other forms of spray), often it appears that small droplets of water skitter off on Keep reading
Liquid Sculptures
Water droplet art celebrates the infinite forms created from the impact of drops with a pool and rebounding jets. It’s a still life captured from split second interactions between inertia, Keep reading
Liquid Sculptures
Artist Corrie White uses dyes and droplets to capture fantastical liquid sculptures at high-speed. The mushroom-like upper half of this photo is formed when the rebounding jet from one droplet’s Keep reading
Surface Explosions
Underwater explosions often behave non-intuitively. Here researchers explore the effects of surface explosions by setting off charges at the air/water interface. Initially, an unconfined explosion’s blast wave expands a cavity Keep reading
Bouncing and Break-Up
In the collage above, successive frames showing the bouncing and break-up of liquid droplets impacting a solid inclined surface coated with a thin layer of high-viscosity fluid have been superposed. Keep reading
Champagne Science
Today many a glass of champagne will be raised in honor of the end of one year and the beginning of a new. This French wine, known for its bubbly Keep reading