A new study published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides evidence that a specific style of ...

WHETHER it's the mechanics of a supernova, the ignition of an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsule, or the detonation of a nuclear weapon, simulating the motion of fluids is anything but simple.

Scientists shed new light on the chaotic motion of a solid body moving through a fluid. They claim to have discovered two basic mechanisms that lead to chaotic motion of the body as it interacts with ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Fluid mechanics is the science of breaking waves, explosions, bubbles, ripples, clouds, and currents. So when editors of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics declared, in 1967, that their ...

Soap Film RipplesJanuary 28, 2010—Ripples in soap film mimic the flow of air from a hand-held fan in an award-winning image from the American Physical Society's (APS) most recent Gallery of Fluid ...