A study inspired by street performers making gigantic soap bubbles led to a discovery in fluid mechanics: Mixing different molecular sizes of polymers within a solution increases the ability of a thin ...

Although the COVID-19 pandemic caused many disruptions in the educational system, it also led to some surprising benefits. In Physics of Fluids, scientists from the University of Illinois at ...

Shini is very excited to start talking about Fluids. In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini is very excited to start talking about Fluids. You see, she's a Fluid Dynamicist and Mechanical ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. For the test problem, ...

In collaboration with the MacCurdy Lab, we recently published a paper in Physics of Fluids titled Modeling of Contactless Bubble-bubble Interactions in Microchannels with Integrated Inertial Pumps.

You spin me round: Two spinners inside a circular container are surrounded by liquid containing bubbles that help to visualize the flows. The left spinner is actively driven to rotate with a motor ...

How long does it take for the last drop of milk or oil to drip out of the bottle? US scientists have probed this everyday conundrum.

Electrons flowing in vortices Top: Schematic experimental layout showing samples of Au (a) and WTe2 (b) together with the device used to measure current flow. Bottom: Normalized current densities ...