Hydrodynamics is a branch of fluid mechanics that involves mathematical analysis of the forces occurring at a fluid-object interface, e.g., between a submarine and the surrounding water or between a pipe wall and the flowing water. In general, it does...

Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) brought a high level of mathematical rigor to the study of natural phenomena, particularly phenomena associated with liquids and gases. He was especially fascinated with the behavior of...

Hydrodynamics is a branch of theoretical fluid dynamics which deals with flow of an ideal fluid. An ideal fluid is both incompressible and inviscid. Blaise Pascal in the 1600s contributed some of the initial theory to this field. The term originates...

Recently, Zhang and Neelamegham (2002) argue that the hydrodynamic recruitment of rolling leukocytes, as predicted theoretically and observed experimentally by King and Hammer (2001a), occurs over longer distances than that attributable to the disturbance caused by a rigid spherical cell in shear flow (4-5...

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The boogie boarders at Schlitterbahn Waterpark know that they have a really cool summer job.Five nights a week, for a half-hour just past sunset, the park pays a team of 10- to 19-year-olds to perform loosely choreographed tricks on the park's Boogie Bahn, a fast-flowing...

In the ’60s, at the height of the Cold War, communist Cuba seemed dangerously close to the United States. After all, 90 miles is no distance at all for a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. But the Florida Strait is treacherous—a tough 90 miles to cover in...