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Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity of ideal magneto-hydrodynamics characterized by an inverse turbulent cascade. Accordingly, it is often invoked as one of the basic physical quantities driving the generation and structuring of…

A method to measure the viscosity of liquids at microscales is presented. It uses a thin glass fiber fixed on the tip of the cantilever of an extremely low noise Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), which accurately measures the cantilever…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-12 Clemence Devailly , Justine Laurent , Audrey Steinberger , Ludovic Bellon , Sergio Ciliberto

This fluid dynamics video shows the impact of a hydrophobic sphere impacting a water surface. The sphere has a mass ratio of m* = 1.15, a wetting angle of 110 degrees, a diameter of 9.5 mm, and impacts the surface with a Froude number of Fr…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-10-15 Roderick R. La Foy , Tadd T. Truscott , Alexandra H. Techet

A magnetic field rotating on the free surface of a ferrofluid layer is shown to induce considerable fluid motion toward the direction the field is rolling. The measured flow velocity i) increases with the square of the magnetic field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Krauss , Mario Liu , Bert Reimann , Reinhard Richter , Ingo Rehberg

From a reanalysis of the published literature, the low-shear viscosity of suspensions of hard spheres is shown to have a dynamic crossover in its concentration dependence, from a stretched exponential at lower concentrations to a power law…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 George D. J. Phillies

We describe our approach to atomic magnetometry based on the push-pull optical pumping technique. Cesium vapor is pumped and probed by a resonant laser beam whose circular polarization is modulated synchronously with the spin evolution…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Breschi , Z. D. Grujic , P. Knowles , A. Weis

The viscosity of lipid bilayer membranes plays an important role in determining the diffusion constant of embedded proteins and the dynamics of membrane deformations, yet it has historically proven very difficult to measure. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-30 Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith , Francis G. Woodhouse , Vasily Kantsler , Raymond E. Goldstein

Micropumps are one of the most important parts of a microfluidic system. In particular, for biomedical applications such as Lab-on-Chip systems, micropumps are used to transport and manipulate test fluids in a controlled manner. In this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Sumana Bhattacharjee

We present a mesoscopic approach to analyze the dynamics of a single magnetic dipole under the influence of an oscillating magnetic field, based on the formulation of a Fokker-Planck equation. The dissipated power and the viscosity of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-07 A. Perez Madrid , T. Alarcon , J. M. G. Vilar , J. M. Rubi

We report on the controlled transport of drops of magnetic liquid, which are swimming on top of a non-magnetic liquid layer. A magnetic field which is rotating in a vertical plane creates a torque on the drop. Due to surface stresses within…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-25 V. Sterr , R. Krauss , K. I. Morozov , I. Rehberg , A. Engel , R. Richter

We analyse small-amplitude oscillations of a weakly viscous electrically conducting liquid drop in a strong uniform DC magnetic field. An asymptotic solution is obtained showing that the magnetic field does not affect the shape eigenmodes,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-03-21 Jānis Priede

Electron hydrodynamics is an emerging framework that describes dynamics of interacting electron systems as conventional fluids. While evidence for hydrodynamic-like transport is reported in a variety of two-dimensional materials, precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Yihang Zeng , Haoyu Guo , Olivia M. Ghosh , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Leonid S. Levitov , Cory R. Dean

This study presents a classroom-friendly method for measuring the coefficient of viscosity of a liquid using a smartphone s accelerometer sensor. A metallic ball tied with a spring-mass system and submerged in mustard oil undergoes damped…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-12 Sanjoy Kumar Pal , Pradipta Panchadhyayee

A new method of accurate calculation of the coefficient of viscosity of a test liquid from experimentally measured terminal velocity of a ball falling in the test liquid contained in a narrow tube is described. The calculation requires the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-02-14 Amit Vikram Singh , Lavanjay Sharma , Pinaki Gupta-Bhaya

A simple viscometer consists of mineral water bottle and trink straw is used to predict vicosity of water. A model is derived from Bernoulli's principle and Poiseulli's law. Value about 0.374 - 0.707 cP is obtained for observation in room…

Popular Physics · Physics 2014-01-30 Sparisoma Viridi , Sidik Permana , Wahyu Srigutomo , Anggie Susilawati , Acep Purqon

Viscosity is a key property of cell membranes that controls mobility of embedded proteins and membrane remodeling. Measuring it is challenging because existing approaches involve complex experimental designs and/or models, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-19 Hammad A. Faizi , Rumiana Dimova , Petia M. Vlahovska

Some cylindrically symmetric inhomogeneous viscous fluid cosmological models with electro-magnetic field are obtained. To get a solution a supplementary condition between metric potentials is used. The viscosity coefficient of bulk viscous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anirudh Pradhan , Sudhir Kumar Srivastav , Kanti R. Jotania

Magnetic resonance of sodium fluorescence is studied with varying laser intensity, duty cycle, and field strength. A magnetometer based on sodium vapor cell filled with He buffer gas is demonstrated, which uses a single amplitude-modulated…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Tingwei Fan , Lei Zhang , Xuezong Yang , Shuzhen Cui , Tianhua Zhou , Yan Feng

We investigate the local viscosity of a polymer glass around its glass transition temperature using environment-sensitive fluorescent molecular rotors embedded in the polymer matrix. The rotors' fluorescence depends on the local viscosity,…

For space-borne gravitational wave detectors,such as LISA and TianQin ,the disturbance caused by the coupling of test masses and the external magnetic fields is one of the main sources of the residual acceleration noise. Although the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-05 Yuanyang Yu , Butian Zhang , Shengxin Lin , Jianping Liang , Donghua Pan , Shun Wang , Ze-Bing Zhou