News tagged with particle image velocimetry
By Simulating Gullies, Geographers Discover Ways to Tame Soil Erosion
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dead zones in critical waterways, accelerated loss of arable land and massive famines. They're all caused by the 24 billion tons of soil that are lost every year to erosion, a phenomenon that ...
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid (w/ Videos)
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Most scientists who create models trying to understand the mechanics and aerodynamics of insect flight have assumed that insect wings are relatively rigid as they flap.
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Phoenix Microscope Takes First Image of Martian Dust Particle
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken the first-ever image of a single particle of Mars' ubiquitous dust, using its atomic force microscope.
A Super-Efficient Particle Accelerator
Jul 01, 2009 |
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This image of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope shows a part of the roughly circular supernova remnant known as RCW 86.
Grid helps find one picture in a million
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for images on the internet can be a frustrating business. Whether you want the perfect sunset over the sea or the London skyline by night, youre dependent on people to describe the ...
Swarm approach to photography
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 01, 2008 |
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A new approach to cleaning up digital photos and other images has been developed by researchers in the UK and Jordan. The research, published recently in Inderscience's International Journal of Innovative Computing and Ap ...
Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2008 |
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The best map of wind speeds on Jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the Great Red Spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.
Stardust Finds A Gem Of A Space Particle
Feb 28, 2006 |
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This image shows a comet particle collected by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. The particle consists of the silicate mineral forsterite, also known as peridot in its gem form. It is surrounded by a thin rim of ...
Engineers identify conditions that initiate erosion
Oct 30, 2008 |
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Wind, water, and waves erode billions of tons of soil from the earth's surface. As a result, many rivers are plagued with excessive amounts of suspended sediment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, such ...
Leading edge vortex allows bats to stay aloft
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Feb 28, 2008 |
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Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of vortices.
Scientists image a single HIV particle being born
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 25, 2008 |
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A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude – and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and a ...
New tool for 'right first time' drug manufacture
Sep 22, 2008 |
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A technology which provides high quality images of the crystallisation process marks the next step towards a 'right first time' approach to drug manufacture, according to engineers at the University of Leeds.
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