Cylindrical container (IMAGE)

New York University

Cylindrical container

Caption

A recent experimental study, inspired by the super-rotation of the Earth's solid core, shows when turbulence flows contained in a cylinder interact with a free body a surprisingly smooth rotation is observed. The red (warm) and blue (cold) ribbons represent water flows.

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Image by Kaizhe Wang and Jun Zhang.

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