{"id":165215,"date":"2023-06-06T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/redefining-fluid-dynamics-ancient-invention-sparks-modern-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-06-06T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T11:22:27","slug":"redefining-fluid-dynamics-ancient-invention-sparks-modern-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/redefining-fluid-dynamics-ancient-invention-sparks-modern-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Fluid Dynamics: Ancient Invention Sparks Modern Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/redefining-fluid-dynamics-ancient-invention-sparks-modern-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists has discovered new laws governing the flow of fluids by conducting experiments on an ancient technology: the drinking straw. This newfound understanding has the potential to enhance fluid management in medical and engineering contexts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube,\u201d explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/new-york-university\/>New York University\u2019s<\/a> Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an author of the study, which appears in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. \u201cThis motivated us to search for a new law that could work for any type of fluid moving at any rate through a pipe of any size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movement of liquids and gases through conduits such as pipes, tubes, and ducts is a common phenomenon in both natural and industrial contexts, including in scenarios like the circulation of blood or the transportation of oil through pipelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists has discovered new laws governing the flow of fluids by conducting experiments on an ancient technology: the drinking straw. This newfound understanding has the potential to enhance fluid management in medical and engineering contexts. \u201cWe found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1496,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-law","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165215","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}