Complex fluids, such as polymer melts and concentrated suspensions, are foundational materials for industrial products, ...

Helicity is, like energy, a quadratic invariant of the Euler equations of ideal fluid flow, although, unlike energy, it is not sign definite. In physical terms, it represents the degree of linkage of ...

Dear FSM Students and Postdocs, The FSM Seminar Series meeting this coming Wednesday, 16 November, at 4:30 pm in Aero 114 will be practice presentations for five students attending the upcoming APS ...

Manufacturing complex fluids industrially often involves mechanical forces that introduce internal stress and damage ...

Every fluid -- from Earth's atmosphere to blood pumping through the human body -- has viscosity, a quantifiable characteristic describing how the fluid will deform when it encounters some other matter ...

Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) governs how flowing water and air interact with marine structures—from wind turbines to ...

Water makes up around 60% of the human body. More than half of this water is inside the cells that make up organs and tissues, and much of the remaining water flows in the spaces between cells. MIT ...

If you’ve ever whacked the bottom of a ketchup bottle to get that tasty tomato goop flowing, you’ve put some serious physics to work. Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid. So are toothpaste, yogurt, ...

In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why. Fluids can be roughly divided into two categories: regular ones and ...