Star and pentagon wave crests in silicone oil. (Courtesy: Jean Rajchenbach, Didier Clamond and Alphonse Leroux Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 094502) A new wave phenomenon in liquids has been spotted by ...
Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised. For nearly a century, “reality” has been a murky concept. The laws of quantum physics seem to ...
Shock formation represents the process whereby smooth solutions to the governing equations of fluid dynamics undergo a transition to discontinuous states. In compressible fluid dynamics, this ...