#rheoscopic — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rheoscopic, aggregated by home.social.
-
The obstacle is a pencil, stationary, while the lazy Susan spins underneath with the fluid. The #rheoscopic fluid (easily made at home, more on that on another post) allows the currents to be seen easily. An instability makes the fluid "oscillate" and create the von Kármán vortices as it flows around the pencil. Here's a video:
[3/4]
#eddies #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science -
This is a rotating shallow water #experiment, essentially a lazy Susan powered by a #LEGO motor and filled with a #rheoscopic fluid. Here's the setup:
[2/4]
#eddies #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #physics #science #diynamics