Particles surf their own waves, reveal how microbes and cells move through human body
Surf's up for microbes swimming beside red blood cells.
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News tagged with fluid flow
Virtual simulation and 3-D modeling assure high performance of projects
Tau Flow, a computational engineering startup based in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil, offers the market customized mathematical solutions for the optimization of project performance. It uses 3-D computational fluid dynamics ...
Engineering
Sep 17, 2018
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The invisible power of 'flutter'—from plane crashes to snoring to free energy
With the car windows down on the first warm day of spring, the urge is unshakable. You extend your arm into the wind, tracing the city skyline in a natural motion somewhere between swimming and waving. As you move your hand, ...
Engineering
Mar 30, 2018
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New approach can save up to 95 percent of energy used for pipelines
Scientists have assumed that once a flow of a fluid has become turbulent, turbulence would persist. Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), including Professor Björn Hof and co-first ...
Plasma Physics
Jan 8, 2018
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How suspended particles influence liquid flow dynamics
One of the most prominent publications in physics, Physical Review X, accepted an article by Sangwoo Shin, a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa assistant professor in mechanical engineering. The article is titled Accumulation ...
Soft Matter
Nov 29, 2017
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Engineers predict how flowing fluid will bend tiny hairs that line blood vessels and intestines
Our bodies are lined on the inside with soft, microscopic carpets of hair, from the grassy extensions on our tastebuds, to fuzzy beds of microvilli in our stomachs, to superfine protein strands throughout our blood vessels. ...
General Physics
Aug 21, 2017
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Hundred-year-old law on fluid flow overturned by new research
Engineers from Imperial College London have dispelled a 100-year-old scientific law used to describe how fluid flows through rocks.
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2017
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Reverse engineering mysterious 500-million-year-old fossils that confound our tree of life
Paleontologists like us are used to working with fossils that would seem bizarre to many biologists accustomed to living creatures. And as we go farther back in Earth's history, the fossils start to look even weirder. They ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 21, 2017
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Using photoluminescent nanorods as ultimate probes of fluid flow
A Franco-Dutch international collaboration involving researchers from the laboratories of Condensed Matter Physics and Hydrodynamics at Paris-Saclay University and the Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University ...
Nanophysics
Jun 20, 2017
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Focusing on grains, researchers solve a mystery of rivers' flow
Taking a simpler approach to a complex problem, Yale researchers have an answer for why large grains move more easily than smaller ones when driven by fluid flow along a riverbed—a question that has confounded scientists ...
Soft Matter
Mar 29, 2017
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