New mathematics accurately captures liquids and surfaces moving in synergy
Friday, June 10, 2016 - 13:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Gas bubbles in a glass of champagne, thin films rupturing into tiny liquid droplets, blood flowing through a pumping heart and crashing ocean waves—although seemingly unrelated, these phenomena have something in common: they can all be mathematically modeled as interface dynamics coupled to the Navier-Stokes equations, a set of equations that predict how fluids flow.