{"id":108643,"date":"2020-06-13T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T03:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/solved-fluid-mechanics-mystery-thats-been-puzzling-scientists-for-decades"},"modified":"2020-06-13T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T03:04:20","slug":"solved-fluid-mechanics-mystery-thats-been-puzzling-scientists-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/solved-fluid-mechanics-mystery-thats-been-puzzling-scientists-for-decades","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Fluid Mechanics Mystery That\u2019s Been Puzzling Scientists for Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solved-fluid-mechanics-mystery-thats-been-puzzling-scientists-for-decades.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Oregon State University environmental engineering professor has solved a decades-old mystery regarding the behavior of fluids, a field of study with widespread medical, industrial, and environmental applications.<\/p>\n<p>The research by Brian D. Wood, published in the <em>Journal of Fluid Mechanics<\/em>, clears a roadblock that has been puzzling scientific minds for nearly 70 years and paves the way to a clearer picture of how chemicals mix in fluids.<\/p>\n<p>A more complete grasp of that basic principle provides a foundation for advances in a range of areas \u2013 from how pollutants spread in the atmosphere to how drugs perfuse tissues within the human body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oregon State University environmental engineering professor has solved a decades-old mystery regarding the behavior of fluids, a field of study with widespread medical, industrial, and environmental applications. The research by Brian D. Wood, published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, clears a roadblock that has been puzzling scientific minds for nearly 70 years and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}