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Tag: fountain

Water recreation illnesses

June 23, 2014 Martin Gardiner

Now that Summer’s (kind of) on the way (for approx. half the globe) what better time to think about mucking around in an interactive fountain? Before you do, however, you could read Issue 1, Vol. 2 of The Wave, published by the US Govt. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There is no standing water […]

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Three Coins in a Fountain, and Some Salty Finger Problems

April 2, 2013 Marc Abrahams

We are, all of us, in a certain sense enjoying a steady flow of research reports about fluids. Here are two of the newest items: “Three coins in a fountain ,” H. K. Moffatt,  Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 720 , April 2013, pp 1 – 4. [doi: 10.1017/jfm.2013.55] (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for […]

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