Watch: Amazing Fluid Dynamics Experiments
25 August 2022
Last update: 31/01/23 12:15
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.
See below for a full list of experiments with associated timestamps.
0:12 – Electric current and liquid crystal
1:36 – Segregation of metal balls and poppy seeds
2:40 – Chains and granular material
3:05 – Granular vortex
4:06 – Waves in a rotating drum
5:00 – Viscous fluid instability
5:58 – Needle in a rotating drum
6:44 – Floating ball
7:35 – Floating cylinder
8:40 – Magnetic swimmer
9:40 – Disordered balls in syrup
With thanks to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) and the UK Fluids Network (UKFN) for their generous support. Interview with Professor Tom Mullin – a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.
Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at St Edmund Hall
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