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 ...

Since we cannot look into the interiors of stars and planets, we rely on lab experiments to replicate the physical processes that occur there. Led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), ...

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 ...

What do a wine glass on Earth and an International Space Station experiment have in common? Well, observing the wine glass would be one of few ways to see and understand the experiment being performed ...

A combination of simulations and experiments explicitly demonstrates that common chemical reactions can drive convection flows in fluids. Salt plumes. The formation of salt from the reaction of ...

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 ...

Directions: Watch, and don't disturb the soup. Look at the little bits of miso as they rise to the surface and sink again. Shortly, you'll see the upwellings and downdrafts of miso organize into 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 ...