The Best of FYFD 2024

Welcome to another year and another look back at FYFD’s most popular posts. (You can find previous editions, too, for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014. Whew, that’s a lot!) Here are some of 2024’s most popular topics:

• The Taum Sauk Dam Failure and Its Legacy
• Stretching Ant Rafts
• Gigapixel Supernova
• Feynman’s Sprinkler Solved
• Calming the Waves
• “Dew Point” Deposits Droplets
• Drying Unaffected by Humidity
• Trapped in a Taylor Column
• Exciting a Flame in a Trough
• Remembering Rivers Past
• A Comet’s Tail
• Light Pillars
• Liquid Metal Printing
• The Miscible Faraday Instability
• A Triangular Prominence

This year’s topics are a good mix: fundamental research, civil engineering applications, geophysics, astrophysics, art, and one good old-fashioned brain teaser. Interested in what 2025 will hold? There are lots of ways to follow along so that you don’t miss a post.

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(Image credits: dam – Practical Engineering, ants – C. Chen et al., supernova – NOIRLab, sprinkler – K. Wang et al., wave tank – L-P. Euvé et al., “Dew Point” – L. Clark, paint – M. Huisman et al., iceberg – D. Fox, flame trough – S. Mould, sign – B. Willen, comet – S. Li, light pillars – N. Liao, chair – MIT News, Faraday instability – G. Louis et al., prominence – A. Vanoni)

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"Tea flavor is quite sensitive to the temperature of the boiling water used to brew it, as it affects how well the tannins get extracted. According to the researchers, Ciarán’s conditions potentially ruined millions of cups of breakfast tea in the greater London area" #FYFD

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/08/how-a-storm-can-ruin-your-tea/

This was a really cool interpretation of the von Karman vortex street

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2021/09/karman-vortex-street/

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Great #SciComm advice from:

1. Nicole Sharpe, #FYFD, Blogosphere: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.110515

2. Aristotle, Ancient Greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_persuasion

Best of #FYFD 2020

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2021/01/the-best-of-fyfd-2020/

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A cork which floats underneath the surface 😄

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2020/09/the-magic-cork/

Cool demonstration of stratified fluids and buoyancy frequency.

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