News tagged with hydrodynamic force

Osmosis in colloidal suspensions

(PhysOrg.com) -- It is very difficult to overestimate the importance of colloidal suspensions. Besides being an integral part of our everyday life (food, cosmetics, drugs), they also serve as an excellent ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

SwRI researchers design and build gas bearing test rig

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Southwest Research Institute have designed and built a 60,000 rpm gas bearing test rig to test the rotordynamic stability of gas bearings.

Technology / Engineering

created May 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineer Discovers Why Particles Like Flour Disperse on Liquids

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2




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New research on seaweeds shows it takes more than being flexible to survive crashing waves

Seaweeds are important foundational species that are vital both as food and habitat to many aquatic and terrestrial shore organisms. Yet seaweeds that cling to rocky shores are continually at risk of being ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Escape response of small fish tested using a supercomputer

(Phys.org) -- Small fish bend themselves into a 'C' shape before they flee from predators. Observations have suggested that this shape helps them to abruptly put the greatest distance possible between themselves ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Same samples, different analytical strategies, complementary inferences

(Phys.org) -- The results of two separate but complementary analyses on 400 samples of Hanford Site groundwater appeared together in the journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology. The studies ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New 'thermal' approach to invisibility cloaking hides heat to enhance technology

In a new approach to invisibility cloaking, a team of French researchers has proposed isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat—essentially "thermal cloaking." This method, which the researchers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why we've got the cosmological constant all wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some scientists call the cosmological constant the "worst prediction of physics." And when today’s theories give an estimated value that is about 120 orders of magnitude larger than the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (41) | comments 152 | with audio podcast feature

Topography played key role in Deepwater Horizon disaster, researchers say

When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shearing triggers odd behavior in microscopic particles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pregnancy is a drag for bottlenose dolphins

Lumbering around during the final weeks before delivery is tough for any pregnant mum. Most females adjust their movements to compensate for the extreme physical changes that accompany the later stages of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hydrodynamics of writing with ink

For millennia, writing has been the preferred way to convey information and knowledge from one generation to another. We first developed the ability to write on clay tablets with a point, and then settled ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

A new spin on understanding plasma confinement

To achieve nuclear fusion for practical energy production, scientists often use magnetic fields to confine plasma. This creates a magnetic (or more precisely "magneto-hydrodynamic") fluid in which plasma is tied to magnetic ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2


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