Seven years ago, UC Santa Barbara researchers caught an unexpected phenomenon on film: A pool of red dye that somehow “knew” how to solve a maze filled with milk. Propelled forward by a couple drops ...

(Nanowerk News) A Purdue University researcher has solved a 140-year-old enigma in fluid mechanics: Why does a simple formula describe the seemingly complex physics for the behavior of elliptical ...

From Bernoulli’s theorem to vortex flows, fluid mechanics labs bring textbook theory to life. Open lab manuals, creative experiments, and precise tools empower students to connect equations with ...

What began as a demonstration of the complexity of fluid systems became an art piece in the American Physical Society’s Gallery of Fluid Motion, and ultimately its own puzzle that the researchers just ...