1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate
...citys tall buildings is generating one of the most turbulent areas ever observed in the deep ocean. In fact,...tes and France -- documents for the first time the turbulent conditions in an undersea mountain range known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It provides never-before-s...New research shows sharks use their noses and bodies to locate smells
...rbulence simultaneously. "We might see odor and turbulent eddies in the oily wake behind a boat. A moving animal, similarly, leaves behind a trail of turbulent eddies flavored by its body odor," explained Atema. In an eight meter flume in the lab, Atema and Ja...Bat flight generates complex aerodynamic tracks
...maneuver through incredibly unsteady air flows and turbulent conditions."...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...velocity distribution, the authors detect intense, turbulent mixing throughout the observed water depth along the Izu-Ogasawara Trough, which runs parallel to the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge. In contrast, the Aleutian and Hawaiian ridges hosted only light to moderate mixing. Title: Microstructure measurements in the...EO Lawrence Award goes to 8 scientists and engineers
...d expert on Rayleigh-Taylor mixing and unstable or turbulent fluid flow processes that are critical to the quality of predictions of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile reliability and thus to the nation's security. He has developed a world-class laboratory at Texas A&M University for buoyancy-driven mixin...Cutting-edge projects awarded computing time on Blue Gene/L
...borators at the University of Illinois, will study turbulent thermal transport in sodium-cooled reactor cores in order to gain an understanding of thermal mixing that can lead to improved safety and economy of advanced reactors. Phani Nukala at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will simulate the physics of fractu...Porous Media and its Applications in Science, Engineering and Industry
...ort in porous media as well as research related to turbulent modeling in porous media. Sessions are envisioned on: 1. Natural and Forced Convection in Porous Media 2. Evaporation, Condensation, Capillary Effects and Reactive Flow In Porous Media 3. Radiation Heat Transfer in Porous Media 4. Conduction ...Academy honors 18 for major contributions to science
...exafluoride to understand vertical diffusivity and turbulent mixing in the open ocean." The medal was established by a gift of Sir John Murray and has been awarded since 1913. JOHN J. CARTY AWARD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE a medal and a prize of $25,000 awarded annually for noteworthy and distinguish...Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves
...nds to erode and exerts less drag on the wave." A turbulent mountain of water crashing over a complicated rough surface presented Kunkel with a number of obstacles for her own study -- specifically, how to find a way to express each of these effects with a mathematical formula that a computer could employ to ...Scientists find new way to manipulate DNA
...nts measured only laminar or smooth flow, which is turbulent free. Yet, during their own experiments, the U-...uite a bit. Through experiments that accounted for turbulent flow, Solomon and co-authors Steven Ceccio, with appointments in the Department of Mechanical Engine...Tiny shock absorbers help bacteria stick around inside the body
...o a set of shock absorbers on your car that dampen turbulent forces caused by bumpy road conditions," added stu...rstanding of how to fight bacteria that persist in turbulent environments, like the human urinary tract or intestines."...Surf's up -- and one coastal microbe has adapted
...d found that this coastal dweller has adapted to a turbulent environment by learning to use metals in ways that its open-ocean relatives cannot. In the study, led by Ian Paulsen of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), scientists set out to begin understanding the adaptation of bacterial genomes to the...Study reveals details of mussels' tenacious bonds
...ning their tenacious bonds in saltwater, including turbulent tidal environments. Little is known, however, about exactly how the bivalves achieve this amazing feat. In a paper to be published online the week of Aug. 14 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Northwestern University research...Top researcher-educators receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
...is kind of behavior is important in phenomena from turbulent fluid flow to the chemical networks in living systems. Mattingly also brings the excitement of modern mathematics to young people through an energetic outreach program to local high schools, with the hope of encouraging students to enter careers in t...How parachute spiders invade new territory
...les out to sea. Researchers have now found that in turbulent air the spiders' silk moulds to the eddies of the ...pider's dragline and when a dragline is caught in turbulent air the model shows how it can become highly contorted, preventing the spider from controlling the d...Elephants, large mammals recover from poaching in Africa's oldest national park
...ecting the park's wildlife can be done in the most turbulent conditions," said WCS researcher Deo Kujirakwinja. "Poaching is still taking a toll on wildlife and the rate of recovery is being slowed as a result, but it is clear that the efforts of ICCN and its partners are finally leading to a reduction in the ...Art of Science exhibit opens at Princeton
...e for "Isolated Hairpin," a computer simulation of turbulent air flow; and Jennifer Rea, a senior in the history of science at Princeton who took first place for her painting titled "Mitosis," which depicts cell division superimposed on a floral fabric. The exhibit is installed in the Friend Center, which...18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing
...rmore, is creating direct numerical simulations of turbulent non-premixed flame that will serve as a benchmark for future theory and experiment. The third group, from the University of Washington, is using the IBM supercomputer at NERSC to catalog dynamical shapes of proteins by systematically unfolding them. ......rom physical and biological systems - for example, turbulent flow and chaotic systems. Lars Hufnagel of the University of California, Santa Barbara, says "what is amazing about these particular scaling laws is the fact that they are determined by two universal parameters only. This result surprised us all." Un...ASU geologists suggest Mars features are result of meteorite strikes, not of evaporated lakes
...anation involving deposition from a ground-hugging turbulent flow of rock fragments, salts, sulfides, brines an...anet with an atmosphere, around the base you get a turbulent ground-hugging cloud of debris that goes out and makes a sedimentary deposit. You get deposits that ...