Tom Rocks Maths | Amazing Fluid Dynamics Experiments @TomRocksMaths | Uploaded 3 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
Tom Mullin at the University of Oxford introduces some of his favourite fluid dynamics experiments... covering a wide range of fluid mechanics phenomena including turbulence, wave formation, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, viscous effects, magnetism, electricity, segregation, disorder and chaos.

See below for a full list of experiments with associated timestamps.

0:12 - Electric current and liquid crystal
1:36 - Segregation of metal balls and poppy seeds
2:40 - Chains and granular material
3:05 - Granular vortex
4:06 - Waves in a rotating drum
5:00 - Viscous fluid instability
5:58 - Needle in a rotating drum
6:44 - Floating ball
7:35 - Floating cylinder
8:40 - Magnetic swimmer
9:40 - Disordered balls in syrup

With thanks to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM) and the UK Fluids Network (UKFN) for their generous support.

Interview with Professor Tom Mullin - a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.

Produced by Dr Tom Crawford at the University of Oxford. Tom is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow at St Edmund Hall: seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford

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