From ketchup to quicksand, non-Newtonian fluids have long fascinated and puzzled scientists. Unlike ordinary fluids, their flow properties change depending on how much force is applied, but the ...

Physics of Fluids is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal on fluid dynamics, published by the American Institute of Physics with cooperation by the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid ...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a new cubic equation of state (EOS) that provides a physical justification for a mathematical structure that the ...

Researchers show how the judicious choice of fluid filler can suppress the turbulent flow that severely hinders the “top-kill” plugging of a blown-out oil well. Figure 1: (Top left) Kelvin-Helmholtz ...

A real-life forensic puzzle inspired researchers to explore the physics involved, and in Physics of Fluids, they present theoretical results revealing an interaction of the incoming vortex ring of ...

A fluid dynamics theory that violates causality would always generate paradoxical instabilities—a result that could guide the search for a theory for relativistic fluids. Figure 1: In Alice’s ...

Researchers demonstrate an active-fluid system whose behaviors map directly to predictions of the six-vertex model—an exactly solvable model that was originally developed to explain the behavior of ...

A study inspired by street performers making gigantic soap bubbles led to a discovery in fluid mechanics: Mixing different molecular sizes of polymers within a solution increases the ability of a thin ...

In 1948, researchers stressed a nursing mother with ice water, toe pulling, and math problems with shocks. Each time, her baby got less milk. The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts snow in the Upper ...

Brake fluid is essential for your car, but it doesn't last forever. Here's how long it takes for an open bottle of brake ...