Nature7d
Crowds suck people into a vortex — surprising physicists
Studying crowd dynamics could inform strategies that help to prevent dense gatherings from becoming dangerous.
Superfluid spirals: Scientists control Kelvin waves for first time
In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN10d
Scientists catch spirals of Kelvin waves in superfluid helium for the first time
Kelvin waves have been a mystery for decades but a new method involving superfluid helium-4 can help us control them.
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Packed Festival Crowds Aren’t Chaotic — They Form Living Vortices, Which Can Be Predicted with Physics
Researchers have discovered that dense crowds can spontaneously synchronize into collective oscillations, with hundreds of ...
Nature18d
Free Surface Vortex Dynamics in Pump Sumps
Free surface vortex dynamics in pump sumps is a critical area of study in fluid mechanics, particularly in the context of hydropower and pump station operations. Free surface vortices (FSVs ...
Nanowerk15d
Riding the quantum Kelvin wave
Scientists demonstrate controlled oscillations of quantum vortex core lines in superfluid helium, visualizing helical waves on quantum vortices.
Using achiral hard banana-shaped particles to assemble skyrmions and blue phases
A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...
Interesting Engineering10d
Scientists catch spirals of Kelvin waves in superfluid helium for the first time
This action disturbed the fluid, trapping some particles ... By visualizing the vortex’s three-dimensional dynamics, we obtained direct and concrete evidence that the observed oscillations ...