Such a pretty #friendlywaves!
My long time Twitter friend Anne shared these beautiful pictures and I absolutely had to do a #friendlywaves post where I explain other people’s wave pictures. Take a moment to admire…
Tag: standing waves
#wavewatching: Standing waves on coffee on a train!
When I wrote the blog post on “wave watching in a bucket” a couple of days ago, it strongly reminded me of a movie I had filmed already back in March…
A tiny waterfall, super- and subcritical flows, submerged hydraulic jump, standing waves. What more could anyone want?
Last stop on my work trip that — apart from doing important work, obviously — brought me to Berlin for some wave watching and to Brodowin to look at beaver…
Observing waves in a tank
So you thought filling water into a tank was boring? Not on my watch! This is how we fill up the tank: Through a hole at the bottom. Which leads…
Wave watching Sunday in Grenoble
Today I went on a wave-hunt expedition to take pictures for posts on the Froude and Reynolds number over at Elin & team’s blog (which you should totally check out if…
Standing waves in a current
The other day I found the perfect standing waves on a current: This egg-carton-like pattern really stays pretty constant over time and I think the changes in the wave pattern…
Standing waves
One thing I find endlessly fascinating are – you might have heard it before – standing waves. At the waterfront in Kiel I saw some the other day: Watch the movie…
Wave fields around objects in a channel
One of the reasons I have been wanting to do the vortex street experiment I wrote about on Monday is that it is pretty difficult to visualize flow fields (especially if…
Standing waves
Standing waves caused by rocks in a current. I am incredibly fascinated by standing waves. The standing waves are caused by rocks sitting in a current. From the pictures below…
Velocity of shallow water waves.
The experiment we run to discuss the velocity of shallow water waves. In this post, I discussed how it took us several years to modify an experiment to make it…