(Phys.org) —Physicists William Irvine and Dustin Kleckner of the University of Chicago, have for the first time, created a knotted vortex in a fluid. They describe how they printed 3D airfoils and ...

Watching LEGO minifigures spin around in a fluid vortex, itself created with motorized LEGO, is a surprisingly hypnotic experience. The list of things people can do with LEGO is literally endless.

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists investigated numerically the interaction between a quantized vortex and a normal fluid. Based on the experimental results, researchers decided the most ...

Liquid helium-4, which is in a superfluid state at cryogenic temperatures close to absolute zero (-273°C), has a special vortex called a quantized vortex that originates from quantum mechanical ...

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Vortex dynamics encompasses the study of rotating fluid structures that span scales from centimetre-sized eddies in engineering applications to kilometre-scale systems in the atmosphere and oceans.

The membrane surrounding cells acts as a selective barrier, cradling and protecting the cell's contents from the external surroundings and choosing which substances to allow in or out of the cell.

So long, solitons: University of Chicago physicists have shown that a group of scientists were incorrect when they concluded that a mysterious effect found in superfluids indicated the presence of ...