Solid but fluid: New materials reconfigure their entire crystal structure in response to humidity

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a material is soft and flexible, or stiff and tough depends on how molecules ...
Science Daily

Liquid-solid interactions, as never before seen: New technique improves researchers’ ability to measure a key property of material surfaces

Scientists have found a way to obtain images that improves the resolution of such measurements by a factor of 10,000 or more, allowing for unprecedented precision in determining the details of the ...
UPI

Liquid-solid interaction measures improved

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 27 (UPI) -- U.S.-led scientists say they've created a technique that produces unprecedented precision in measuring liquid-solid interactions. Massachusetts Institute of ...
Machine Design

Solid ideas improve fluid simulations

But solving fluidstructure and fluidthermal problems with older FEA codes requires solving the fluid part and somehow mapping its results onto the other. Analysts might also have to tweak the mesh to ...

Fluid simulation at unprecedented scale provides toolkit for fundamental physics and applied fluid engineering

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...