The PageRank algorithm was developed by Google co-founder Larry Page, and first introduced in 1998. It is based on the idea that a website’s importance can be measured by the number of other websites that link to it. Here, EJAM researchers study the PageRank algorithm.
The John Ockendon Prize launched in 2016 and is named after the founding editor of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics. This award recognises researchers for their contribution to applied mathematical research. In this article, Journal Editor Martin Burger discusses the 2022 winning paper.
Rahil Valani (Monash University) explains how superwalking droplets form when a bath of oil is vibrated at two different frequencies, and how this phenomena is related to quantum theory and wave-particle duality. Research by Rahil Valani at Monash University
The Lutetium Project film a water droplet impacting on a superhydrophobic cone-shaped surface and the results are breathtaking. Research by Pierre Chantelot at the University of Twente.
A study on duck swimming behaviour published in JFM secures the 2022 Ig Nobel prize in physics for Zhi-Ming Yuan, Minglu Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyan Ji and Atilla Incecik
September 16th 2021 marked the 34th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, one of the most successful climate initiatives in United Nations history.…
When a hydrogel bead is dropped onto a water droplet the fluid is lifted up from the surface creating some incredible structures such as the ‘reverse crown’ and the ‘dancing ballerina’.…
Why does cotton candy disintegrate in air? What happens when you add droplets to candy floss? And how is it made in the first place?…
When a drop of salty water is evaporated on a hydrophobic surface, “salt globes” that mirror the shape of the drop grow.…
Tom Mullin at the University of Oxford introduces some of his favourite fluid dynamics experiments… covering a wide range of fluid mechanics phenomena including turbulence, wave formation, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, viscous effects, magnetism, electricity, segregation, disorder and chaos.…
Our bodies are complicated networks. Our vasculature – the veins, arteries, and capillaries that shuttle blood, oxygen, and nutrients to every part of us – is itself a complex series of interconnected tubes that span a wide range of length scales.…
We were excited to hold the JFM/FLOW 2022 China Symposium in Xi’an in June 2022. This is the second time Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) has held a symposium in China but the first which included our new journal Flow. …
In power networks with increasing shares of sustainable energy resources such as wind and solar radiation, the supply of energy is subject to natural fluctuations.…
About the Mahony Neumann Room Prize This prize, for outstanding contributions to the Australian Mathematical Society’s research publications, is fittingly named after the founding editors of these journals.…
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) belong to our bodies’ most effective weapons in the fight against distorted cells, such as cells infected by viruses or cancer cells.…
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