fluid dynamics

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Chasing solitons

7 min read
Scicomm Science Akhmediev breather Bose-Einstein condensate breather soliton David Tong Draupner wave Erwin Schrodinger fluid dynamics Froude number guitar string Howell Peregrine John Scott Russell Kelvin wake Korteweg-de Vries equation Kuznetsov-Ma breather nonlinearity partial differential equations Peregrine soliton sine-Gordon breather solitons wave of translation

Every once in a while, I dive into a topic in science for no reason other than that I find it interesting. This is how I learnt about Titan, laser-cooling, and random walks. This post is about the fou…

Neural network supercharges model's ability to predict phase transitions

6 min read
Scicomm bulk modulus classical density functional theory density functional theory fluid dynamics free energy functional interparticle interactions Lennard-Jones system Monte Carlo simulation phase transition

Place a pot of water on the stove and light the fire. Once the temperature in the pot reaches 100º C or so, the water will boil to vapour. This is an example of a phase transition that occurs every da…

Jayant Narlikar's pseudo-defence of Darwin

4 min read
Op-eds Scicomm Charles Darwin cosmology fluid dynamics Jayant Narlikar Navier–Stokes equations Niels Bohr original of life principle of correspondence quantum coherence quantum gravity Quantum mechanics theory of evolution

Jayant Narlikar, the noted astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, recently wrote an op-ed in The Hindu titled 'Science should ha…