Mapping Free-Fall Styles of Solid Objects Within Fluids
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 11:01
in Earth & Climate
James Clerk Maxwell conducted some of the first documented studies of free-falling objects during the mid-1800s, when the physicist analyzed the tumbling motion of a freely falling plate. But much remains unknown about the phenomena. Maxwell's work inspired a team of researchers in China to conduct a numerical study to explore the patterns made by 2-D rectangular plates falling freely within water. They report their findings this week in Physics of Fluids.