Watch: The Physics of Cotton Candy (Candy Floss)
8 September 2022
Last update: 31/01/23 12:18
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? Discover the physics of cotton candy and the fluid dynamics governing its behaviour.
Research by Stéphane Dorbolo at the University of Liége.
Interview with University of Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford
This video is part of a collaboration with the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the UK Fluids Network featuring a series of interviews with researchers from the APS DFD 2019 conference.
Produced by Tom Crawford an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall:
Featuring ‘Barbe-A-Papa’ https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2019.GFM.V0010 Gallery of Fluid Motion entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxKLKzSqCaU With thanks to Stéphane Dorbolo RODNAE Productions
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