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How Nanoparticles Affect Flow Through Porous Stuff in Surprising Ways

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 4, 2017 — Those who have mixed oil and vinegar may have unknowingly observed a strange fluid phenomenon called fingering instability. A type of […]

Acetone Experiences Leidenfrost Effect, No Hotplate Needed

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2017 — In doing his due diligence, cleaning his lab equipment, fluid physicist Stoffel Janssens from the Mathematical Soft Matter Unit in the […]

Understanding Breakups

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 30, 2017 — As interest and demand for nanotechnology continues to rise, so will the need for nanoscale printing and spraying, which relies on […]

Surprising results found in the swimming mechanism of microorganism-related model

WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 — For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Germany’s RWTH Aachen University, has explored […]

Blocks of Ice Demonstrate Levitated and Directed Motion

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2016 — Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice becomes highly mobile due to a levitating […]

Space-based Droplet Dynamics Lessons?

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2016 — Droplets in space can grow freakishly large and bounce off nonwetting surfaces in truly unearthly ways. Astronauts frequently encounter huge droplets, […]

Mapping Free-Fall Styles of Solid Objects Within Fluids

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from trees or dandelion seeds blowing in the wind, we can see […]

Measuring the Flowing Forces and Bending on Aquatic Plants

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2016 — Beneath the surface of rivers and streams, aquatic plants sway with the current, playing an unseen but vital role in the […]

Foam Stops Sloshing Liquid

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 13, 2016 — Clinking your glass of beer often leaves its contents sloshing back and forth. Soon, though, the motion stops, your drink settles […]