Tag Archives: Fluid Dynamics

Icy Secrets

Posted on May 22, 2024 by rberkowitz

Oddly shaped bubbles tell a frozen story. Continue reading →

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Nanofluidic memristors compute in brain-inspired logic circuits

Posted on May 16, 2024 by rberkowitz

By connecting two memristors that uses changes in ion concentrations and mechanical deformations to store information, researchers have created the first logic circuit based on nanofluidic components. Continue reading →

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Bouncing Bubbles Boost Boiling

Posted on February 22, 2024 by rberkowitz

A new surface uses tiny gaps to supercharge bubble formation to transfer heat. Continue reading →

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Hot Surfaces Make Droplets Move Erratically

Posted on January 31, 2024 by rberkowitz

A droplet of a volatile liquid can move on a uniformly heated surface thanks to a nonuniform evaporation effect that drives an unstable fluid flow within the droplet. Continue reading →

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How Fur Frustrates Fouling

Posted on January 12, 2024 by rberkowitz

A hair’s resistance to dirt depends on how much it deforms in a flowing fluid. Read more in APS Physics… Continue reading →

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Why Humidity Doesn’t Affect Drying Paint

Posted on December 15, 2023 by rberkowitz

Experiments verify a theory that explains why paint doesn’t dry any faster on a dry day than on a wet day. Continue reading →

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Far-Field Flow Forces Attraction

Posted on October 11, 2023 by rberkowitz

The flow field generated by swimming bacteria drives a long-range attractive force felt by passive objects much larger than the swimmers themselves. Continue reading →

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Droplets Scoot Like Caterpillars

Posted on September 3, 2023 by rberkowitz

A liquid droplet pushed by the wind contracts and stretches its way along a surface until it breaks apart. Continue reading →

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Completing the Picture of How Oil Weathers in Seawater

Posted on August 31, 2023 by rberkowitz

Experiments show that crude oil exposed to sunlight weathers differently in cold seas than in warmer ones, a finding that has implications for cleanup efforts of high-latitude marine oil spills. Continue reading →

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Writing the Rules of Turbulence

Posted on August 17, 2023 by rberkowitz

An experimentally derived equation of state captures a turbulent energy cascade in a far-from-equilibrium quantum gas. Continue reading →

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