• Sasha [They/Them]
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    91 month ago

    Fluid mechanics guys are nuts, I can’t believe people can write the mathematical equations that govern stuff like this, it’s easily the most impressive and understated area of physics imo.

  • M137
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    81 month ago

    “An example of viscous fingering in a Hele-Shaw cell.”

    haha

    • @regrub
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      51 month ago

      Not to be confused with vicious fingering

  • @AbouBenAdhem
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    1 month ago

    As a consequence of the incompressibility of the flow and Darcy’s law, the pressure fields must be harmonic…

    Every time I start to feel complacent with my ignorance of complex analysis, another harmonic function pops out of the woodwork.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    Wow. That’s why liquid glue looks like this when you remove the things you glue. Interesting.