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 ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Snapshot of the (left) velocity and (right) temperature measurements made by Schindler and his colleagues of a turbulent liquid metal at a very high convection strength. The snapshot shows a ...

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 ...

If the temperature gradient in a fluid oscillates, heat flows through it more effectively, according to experiments that may have relevance for climate models. Thermal physics is groovy. A lava lamp ...