If you like your fluid dynamics with a healthy dose of biology, this video’s for you! Learn about the hydrodynamics of snake strikes, how birds fly in gusty crosswinds, and the mathematical underpinnings of a microswimmer’s journey. This is the final video in our FYFD/JFM collaboration featuring research from the 2017 APS DFD meeting. If you missed any of the previous videos, you can see them all here. Which one is your favorite? Would you like to see the series continue? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter! (Image and video credit: N. Sharp and T. Crawford)

The latest FYFD/JFM video is out, and it’s all about the interactions between structures and flows! We learn about plesiosaur-inspired underwater robots, how turbulence affects air-water interfaces, and how adding a tail can help hide an object in a flow. If you missed one of the previous episodes in this series, you can find them all here. (Image and video credit: T. Crawford and N. Sharp)

In the latest JFM/FYFD video, we tackle some of the less pleasant aspects of summer weather: stopping invasive insects, understanding how plants dispense poison, and looking at the physics behind jellyfish stings. And if you’ve missed any of our previous videos, we’ve got you covered. (Image and video credit: T. Crawford and N. Sharp)

It’s time for another look at breaking fluid dynamics research with the latest FYFD/JFM video! This time around, we tackle some geophysical fluid dynamics, like listening to the sounds newborn tornadoes make below the range of human hearing; studying how melting ice affects burning oil spills; and how salt sinking from sea ice affects the ocean circulation. Check out the full video below for much more! If you’ve missed any of the previous videos in the series, you can check them out here. (Image and video credit: T. Crawford and N. Sharp)

The latest FYFD/JFM video is out! May brings us a look at the incredible flight of dandelion seeds, numerical simulations that reveal the flow above forest canopies, and a look at bee-inspired flapping wing robots being developed for exploring Mars! Learn about all this in the video below, and, if you’ve missed other videos in the series, you can catch up here. (Image and video credit: N. Sharp and T. Crawford)

Summer brings with it lots of great sports, and whether you love riding a bike, sailing a boat, or just hanging out at the pool, our latest FYFD/JFM video has something for you. Want even more sports physics? Check out the Olympic series we did for the London and Rio games. And if you’re looking for more of the latest fluids research, don’t miss the rest of our video series. (Video and image credit: N. Sharp and T. Crawford)

It’s time for another JFM/FYFD collab video! April’s video brings us a taste of spring with research on how bees carry pollen, squid-inspired robotics, and understanding the physics of underwater plumes like the one that occurred in the Deepwater Horizons spill eight years ago. Check it all out in the video below. (Image and video credit: T. Crawford and N. Sharp)

Every year I look forward to the APS DFD conference in November. It brings thousands of researchers together to share the latest in fluid dynamics. So much goes on in those three days that it’s impossible to capture, but last year I teamed up with Tom Crawford and the Journal of Fluid Mechanics to attempt just that. We interviewed 50 researchers on their projects, and we’ll be bringing you their work, in their words, each month leading up to the 2018 APS DFD meeting.

This first video focuses on some of the awesome entries to the 2017 Gallery of Fluid Motion. Watch to learn about oil droplets that go flying everywhere when you’re cooking, balls that walk on water, the water music of Vanuatu and more! To see the videos we discuss and all the other entries, go to gfm.aps.org. (Video credit: N. Sharp and T. Crawford)