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I see a new hashtag in my future #oceanographyofpuddleswithreflectionsofElbphilharmonie

January 4, 2019

There is a theme these days: one of Hamburg’s most famous sights, the concert hall called Elbphilharmonie. And not only is it a pretty impressive buildings, it’s located right at…

Here is to new beginnings!

January 2, 2019

From dawn til dusk (which wasn’t actually as long a time as it sounds ;-)), first day in my new job as programme manager of the citizen science project on…

Let’s guess tides!

October 15, 2017

Actually, there is no need to guess. If you tilt your head 45 degrees to the left, you are looking at Hamburg the way it would be shown on a…

Learning about tides from art moored in a river

June 14, 2016

Disclaimer: This post might well be called “fun with tides” similar to Sheldon Cooper’s “fun with flags” — it is super nerdy, but at least I am having fun! There…

Submerged hydraulic jump. By Mirjam S. Glessmer

Observing hydrodynamics on a very large scale

February 16, 2016

You know I like to point out where you can spot hydrodynamics concepts in your everyday lives (at least if your everyday lives include strolls along rivers and generally a…

Ice on Elbe river in Hamburg. By Mirjam S. Glessmer

Reading ice on a river as tracer for flow fields

January 21, 2016

For most of my readers it might be pretty obvious what the movement of floating ice says about the flow field “below”, but most “normal” people would probably not even notice that…

Shear flow

June 10, 2015

Another early morning crossing this bridge. And the current and the sun glint were perfect for this kind of photos:They almost look like schlieren photography images in those super old papers,…

Refraction of waves

May 22, 2015

I remember being on a looooong walk on some Danish dike when my sister was small and really didn’t want to walk any more, telling her about how phase velocity of…

Waves radiating from an object

April 29, 2015

In the last post, I showed you flow separation on a pylon in Elbe river. Remember? Today, we are back at the same pylon, only that this time the tidal…

Flow separation

April 27, 2015

On the way to the pool I cross over the Elbe river on this pretty bridge. Which is pretty spectacular, just because the structure itself is so amazing. But what…

Currents caused by thrusters

April 13, 2015

Or: fast inflow into nearly stagnant water body Did you ever notice how when certain ferries dock, they stop, already parallel to the dock, a couple of meters away from…

Vortex street

March 6, 2015

Do you use a tide chart to find the best time for your Saturday walk, too? I showed you a vortex street on a plate formed by pulling a paint brush through sugary…

Shear flow

March 2, 2015

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in a shear flow in Elbe river. Last week I talked about how I wanted to use the “Elbe” model in teaching. Here is another idea for an exercise: On…

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I see a new hashtag in my future #oceanographyofpuddleswithreflectionsofElbphilharmonie

Here is to new beginnings!

Let’s guess tides!

Learning about tides from art moored in a river

Observing hydrodynamics on a very large scale

Reading ice on a river as tracer for flow fields

Shear flow

Refraction of waves

Waves radiating from an object

Flow separation

Currents caused by thrusters

Vortex street

Shear flow

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