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Thursday, February 8, 2007

PICTURES: Fluid Polygons and Polyhedra




"When a vertical water jet strikes a circular horizontal impactor, the water is deflected into a horizontal sheet. At sufficiently high speeds, the flow results in a circular water sheet, whose radius is set by a balance between inertial and curvature forces..."



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4 comments:

Tony said...

This is very cool. I've written to Bush for
details.

ceci said...

wow...really awesome. I especially like how each of the photos has a different background, as if these were different natural experiments that they came upon during their cross country trip.

Tony said...

It's misleading for them to say "water."
Water doesn't do this. You have to add
glycerin.

Gaston said...

Oh... that's dissapointing.

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