“How to find a Valentine?” by Splash Lab
Splash Lab made its first Valentines Day YouTube video. Enjoy!
Saturday night live
Our Urinal Dynamics study was featured on Saturday Night Live. As a kid I dreamed of being on Saturday Night Live, and I couldn’t believe that our research was featured there! Surely, once your research has made it through the comedy circuit to be announced by Seth Myers, you have arrived!!!! We are grateful for [...]
Milton Van Dyke Gallery of Fluid Motion Winner 2013
At the APS DFD meeting in 2013 we were honored to receive the Milton Van Dyke award for our video entitled “Cracking Courtesy of Quiescient Cavitation.” The video highlights a method used in some social situations to break a glass bottle with ones bare hands. Watch the video and read the abstract for more information. [...]
APS DFD Participation 2013
In 2013 at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting (APS DFD) in Pittsburg, PA we presented several talks, posters and videos. Each of the titles is listed below along with a short abstract of each one. Pop up height of buoyant rising spheres Tadd Truscott & Randy Munns We examine the [...]
Urinal Dynamics: A Tactical Guide
The BBC just covered one of our conference talks entitled "Urinal Dynamics". This research highlights the physics of urinal usage. Through high-speed videos we show that significant splash back can occur when using a urinal, however, there are mitigation techniques. First, aim for a vertical surface rather than a horizontal one and keep away [...]
“A new angle on water entry” Article Published in Physics of Fluids
On September 18, 2013 our lab was published in Physics of Fluids (Vol.25, Issue 9). The article is called: "A new angle on water entry" by Kyle Bodily, Ken Langley, Jordan Huey, and Tadd T. Truscott. To read the article click HERE. Media Coverage: BYU
Collaborative “Hawk Moth Wings” and “Moonlight on your Excellent Wings” Video
Splash Lab's YouTube video "Hawk Moth wings captured in slow motion" was used in a new video created by Garth Horner. Below is the collaborative video:
Cavitation of a Submerged Jet: Publication in Experiments in Fluids
The article Cavitation of a submerged jet was published in Experiments in Fluids in June. The abstract is below. A cavitation cloud forms when a high-pressure water jet is submerged in a tank of quiescent water. The water jet is formed as high-pressure nitrogen forces a fixed-volume column of water through a nozzle. The diameter and [...]
Sloshing Dynamics
Professor Tadd Truscott along with Masters Student Robert Klaus and undergraduate Taylor W. Killian investigate the impact dynamics of hollow elastic spheres partially filled with fluid in a research paper and podcast featured on Physics of Fluids. Unlike an empty sphere, the internal fluid mitigates some of the rebound through an impulse driven exchange of [...]
Splash Lab Featured on BYU Homepage
Happy Easter everyone! We made another video in conjunction with BYU news to highlight some of our research with an Easter theme. KSL also wanted to come, and they created another segment about us. We were very excited to see both the video on the BYU webpage and the segment on KSL. So excited, in fact, that [...]