A Mariotte bottle is a device that provides a constant effusion velocity for liquids. We discuss a Mariotte bottle that has been designed to study the flow regime and the transition from laminar to turbulent flow. Several straight, smooth, circular glass tubes with different lengths and sections were inserted into the lower part of the bottle so that the rate of flow could be measured in very d...

Since the beginning of the project a year ago, three graduate research assistants (Andrew Odins, Dan Hawblitzel and Jason Sippel) and a postdoctoral research associate (Dr. Naifang Bei) have been fully or partially trained/sponsored by this project. Odins completed and defended successfully his master’s thesis in the fall of 2004 on the mesoscale predictability of an extreme warm-season south-c...

Lundin, L. 1994. Impacts of forest drainage on flow regime. Studia Forestalia Suecica 192. 22 pp. ISSN 0039-3150, ISBN 91-576-4872-7. High floods in watercourses are of great interest. because of the potential hazards they pose to people and low-lying land near rivers. In many parts of the world, inundations are common and in northwest Europe there are high discharges almost every year, occasio...

We investigate nonlinear phenomena in dispersed two-phase systems under creeping-flow conditions. We consider nonlinear evolution of a single deformed drop and collective dynamics of arrays of hydrodynamically coupled particles. To explore physical mechanisms of system instabilities, chaotic drop evolution, and structural transitions in particle arrays we use simple models, such as small-deform...

Introduction: Rivers are complex linear features, (Petts, 1994). Assessing habitat quality and composition has traditionally focused on reaches of 10s metres, recently interest has moved to the mesoscale (100s of metres) e.g. Paraseiwicz (2001); Maddock and Bird (1996). Assessment at the catchment scale is the ultimate goal, e.g. European Water Framework Directive (Bragg et al, 2005) and will p...

Transitional flow, whereby the motion of a fluid changes from laminar to turbulent flow, was successfully identified by Reynolds (1883) almost 130 years ago. According to ASHRAE (2009), for a round pipe, in general, laminar flow exists when the Reynolds number is less than 2 300. Fully turbulent flow exists when the Reynolds number is larger than 10 000 and transitional flow exists for Reynolds...