When Yu "Alex" Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid ...

DEMONSTRATE THE DIFFERENCES IN TEMPERATURE DENSITY, THROUGH A FUN EXPERIMENT. CAITLIN: TODAY WE ARE TESTING CONVECTION USING COLD WATER OR AN ICE CUBE DIED BLUE. WARM OR HOT WATER DYED RED AND ROOM ...

This looks like it could be a fabric print, but in fact you’re looking at magnified view of a phenomenon known as Rayleigh-Benard convection, as temperature differences drive the motion of silicone ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — Rising air is all around us— outside and inside. It's what meteorologists call "convection." Warm air is lighter and less dense than cold air, so it has buoyancy and wants to ...

Sound waves have been used in the lab to mimic the role that gravity plays in driving convection in huge rotating bodies such as stars and planets. The new experiment was created by Seth Putterman and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper experiments on the onset of thermal instability in rotating layers of mercury are described. In agreement with the recent ...

Physicists in the US have performed a simple table-top experiment that could provide new insight into why the Earth’s continents drift apart and then move back together over several hundred-million ...

Findings from a table-top experiment have revealed that the primary driver of a type of fluid flow called solutal convection has been overlooked. What's more, once this driver is accounted for, it ...