In stone skipping, one tosses a stone with a flattened surface across water (or other fluid) to try to get it to bounce as many times as possible. (There are also military applications, but let’s stick to the fun stuff.) A few months ago, mechanical engineer Tadd Truscott and collagues wrote a quick study on […]
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Glug-Glugian “splash”er at Long Beach
Christophe Clanet, Chargé de recherche (CNRS) at the Laboratoire d’hydrodynamique (LadHyX), Paris, is co-author of one of the very few research papers on idealised bottle glug-glug (or, in the original French, Glou Glou ) ( see : Improbable Research, December 8th, 2005 ) He will be at Long Beach, California in late November to present […]