BLACKSBURG (Virginia), December 14, 2010 – an illustration showing a scientific phenomenon defies common intuition has attracted Sunghwan (Sunny) Jung, Assistant Professor of science and mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech and a PhD student Navish Wadhwa of Blacksburg, Virginia, with a specialization in science and mechanical engineering at the College of engineering, the international price of Milton Van Dyke.
According to engineering researchers, they worked with specific silicone fluid called oil often the basis for lubricants and hydraulic fluids. This oil can also be used as an electrical insulator.
"Intuition tells us that two or more of the fluid jets interfere in another will be easily merge to form a single fluid and is mass phenomena well studied," explained Wadhwa. "But when two jets of silicone oil slightly less than 1 millimetre diameter, impinging obliquely on a vertical jet fluid and even same diameter, jets side outside midfielder jet instead of merging resume."
"This reaction is due to the effect of lubrication with a thin layer of air maintained two Jet." Throwing motion replenishes the coalescence indefinitely prolonged the fluid jets atmosphere. »
"This study may provide a better understanding of non-coalescence observed in many technical systems such as the separation of the printing process and cooling spray oil behaviour,"Jung said.""
Entry of Jung and the Wadhwa, "jets Non-coalescence" was chosen for 2010 Milton Van Dyke award session Poster Gallery proposal fluid at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical Society, held in Long Beach, California. Competition has attracted 75 entered poster presentations from anywhere in the world, only three have been selected for the award.
Also, one of their images is presented as "images: fluid Foundation" in the Web of BBC news site.
The late Van Dyke was a Professor of engineering at Stanford University, known for his work in fluid mechanics.
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