Through convection, as the liquid toward the bottom of a container warms up, it becomes less dense and moves to the top, allowing a cooler section of the liquid to contact the heating source. This ...

Findings from a table-top experiment have revealed that the primary driver of a type of fluid flow called solutal convection has been overlooked. What's more, once this driver is accounted for, it ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Power electronic system designers know about natural convection, which starts with the simple statement: Hot air rises. For example, a power ...

Using data captured byNASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a team of researchers from PurdueUniversity (PU) has estimated the depth of the vast nitrogen icepool believed to exist beneath the Sputnik Planum ...

Peculiar polygons: Sputnik Planum could be a giant array of convection cells. (Courtesy: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) The patchwork of polygons on the surface of a vast plain of ice on Pluto is created by heat ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully imaged the surface of the geriatric star π1 Gruis, revealing enormous convection cells that cycle material between the interior and surface of the ...

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2020 -- Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a microwave just isn't the same. Typically, when a liquid is being warmed, the heating source -- a stove, for ...

When Yu "Alex" Liang started graduate school at The University of Texas at Austin, he was tasked with running a straight-forward experiment to collect data on a well-understood phenomenon in fluid ...