An experimental investigation is carried out to study particle entrainment processes (including rolling, hopping and saltation) under well controlled conditions, for a number of...

Collection: UKFN Videos 30/11/17 shortlist

Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

When a solid sphere hits an elastic sheet floating on the surface of water, wrinkles form and a capillary-like ripple propagates. The ripple propagates and the wrinkles grow with...

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Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

This is a video showing a liquid droplet rolling up on a flexible microfluidic device, in which droplet flows along the slope formed by simply bending-deforming a 600 micron thick...

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Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

An 18mm-diameter, 1mm cross-section Latex ring floats on the surface of the water in a funnel. The water is slowly removed, the surface area decreases and the ring is compressed...

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Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

A solid sphere impacts a thin polymer sheet floating at an air-liquid interface. The video is slowed down 200 times.

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Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

This video shows the transfer of mechanical energy and radiative pressure from Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) travelling onto a solid surface into a droplet of water, dropped in the...

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Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017

This is a video of a novel experiment where photoelastic discs are rolled down a narrow, inclined chute. Here the forces exerted when discs interact can be measured from the...

Collection: UKFN Videos 30/11/17 shortlist

Institution: Department of Engineering

Created: Fri 1 Dec 2017