Fluid mechanics with wood and string.

Feb 21, 2011

Here’s a video featuring artist Reuben Margolin. His work is beautiful and inspiring.  The strings, pulleys, wheels, and beams in his sculptures mimic complex fluid mechanics. His Spiral Wave (at 1:00) shows the vortex from a canoe paddle stroke.  Very good....

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Bienvenue à LLRD, Jean-René Thélusmond !

Feb 15, 2011

  Jean-René Thélusmond is a Haitian Fulbright Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Jean-Rene has a BS in Natural Resources and Environment from the State University of Haiti. Jean-Rene has worked as an...

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A month’s worth of good news.

Feb 9, 2011

Time for blog dump, I’ve neglected this place. Because we’ve been overwhelmed with good things! Here you go: Lily spent last week in the Pacific Northwest at RRNW, attending talks and overseeing an Em2 model there. Jean-René Thélusmond, a Fulbright Scholar...

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A holiday delta run using our Em4 model.

Dec 26, 2010

We finally had a little time to play with our newly-set up Em4, and did a casual time lapse last week.  I haphazardly changed variables now and then over a two-hour run as we did other work in the lab. The frames are taken every 30 seconds.  I changed flow rate,...

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Emriver Em2 user update 1.

Dec 16, 2010

Regular readers please forgive me;  I’ll be using the blog now and then to help new users of our redesigned Em2 models.  We’ve had a few of the inevitable annoyances that come with sending a redesigned instrument into the wild. Including having shipments...

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