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Mathematicians Have Just Reversed the Sprinkler

A photo of dyed water being ejected from the team’s sprinkler.
A photo of dyed water being ejected from the team’s sprinkler. Photo: NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory

For 141 years, physicists like Richard Feynman have puzzled over a question of fluid flow: how would a sprinkler rotate if it were underwater, sucking in the stuff instead of spewing it? Now, a team of researchers has found an answer. – Isaac Schultz Read More