Scientists have discovered something that seems almost impossible: under the right conditions, ordinary liquids can snap apart like solid objects. In experiments, researchers found that when certain ...

Researchers discovered that liquids can suddenly snap like solids when stretched hard enough. This unexpected behavior ...

Yield stress fluids and amorphous materials are at the forefront of soft matter research, given their intriguing ability to behave both as solids and liquids. These materials remain rigid under low ...

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...

In a development that could shift our basic understanding of fluid mechanics, researchers from Drexel University have reported that, given the right circumstances, it is possible to induce a simple ...

Squishy science: Top view of the rings after compression and lateral deformation. The contrast has been increased to highlight the orange parts underlying the image analysis. (Courtesy: Poincloux and ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When it comes to predicting boundary conditions of fluids flowing over solid surfaces, the textbooks are all wet, say researchers at the University of Illinois. How fluids behave on ...

Scientists shed new light on the chaotic motion of a solid body moving through a fluid. They claim to have discovered two basic mechanisms that lead to chaotic motion of the body as it interacts with ...

IN subject-matter this book is almost unique among our mathematical manuals. The only fellow to it is Clifford's “Kinematic.” It consists of six chapters, the first dealing with Displacement and ...

Abstract: In both large-eddy simulation (LES) with actuator line model (ALM) representations of wind turbine blades and in analysis of data from a GE field campaign, we have previously shown three ...

In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools. Inspired by nature, the team identified and developed the ...