Playing with roll wave animations
I love how powerful Powerpoint is, at the same time there surely is a way out there to create these kind of animations with a little less copy & pasting,…
Tag: Froude number
Roll waves, one of the more complicated #friendlywaves I’ve gotten over the years…
#friendlywave is the new hashtag I am currently establishing. Send me your picture of waves, I will do my best to explain what’s going on there! When it rains, it pours,…
Who is faster, the currents or the waves? The Froude number
A very convenient way to describe a flow system is by looking at its Froude number. The Froude number gives the ratio between the speed a fluid is moving at,…
Why we actually need a large tank — similarity requirements of a hydrodynamic model
When talking about oceanographic tank experiments that are designed to show features of the real ocean, many people hope for tiny model oceans in a tank, analogous to the landscapes…
Similarity requirements of a hydrodynamic model
Why downscaling only works down to a certain limit When talking about oceanographic tank experiments that are designed to show features of the real ocean, many people hope for tiny…
Hydraulic jump II
More movies of my kitchen sink. I am really fascinated by the hydraulic jumps in my kitchen sink. I can’t believe I haven’t used this before when I was teaching!…
Hydraulic jumps
Water changing its velocity from above to below the critical velocity. Recently in beautiful Wetzlar: The river Lahn flows through the city below the medieval cathedral at sunset. And I’m…