Featured in EPN
Featuring in the latest issue of EPN:
A brief history of the Coriolis force1
by T. Gerkema & L. Gostiaux
“In 1835, Gustave Coriolis derived the expression of a force acting in rotating systems, now known as the Coriolis force. His work was inspired by rotating devices such as waterwheels. However, the one rotating device that has always been with us is the Earth itself. Indeed, the earliest studies on how moving objects behave in a rotating system were directed to the Earth’s diurnal rotation. Here we trace the history of these studies, which started two centuries before Coriolis…”
The Quark-Gluon Plasma, a nearly perfect fluid2
by L. Cifarelli, L.P. Csernai & H. Stocker
“We are living in interesting times, where the World’s largest accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has its most dominant successes in Nuclear Physics: collective matter properties of the Quark-gluon Plasma (QGP) are studied at a detail which is not even possible for conventional, macro scale materials…”
Wind energy research: development of advanced design tools3
by P.J. Eecen, H.A. Bijleveld & B. Sanderse
“Detailed aerodynamic computations are used to improve rotor blade design and to simulate wind turbine interaction in wind farms…”
- Gerkema, T., & Gostiaux, L. (2012). A brief history of the Coriolis force Europhysics News, 43 (2), 14-17 DOI:10.1051/epn/2012202 [↩]
- Cifarelli, L., Csernai, L.P., & Stocker, H. (2012). The Quark-Gluon Plasma, a nearly perfect fluid Europhysics News, 43 (2), 18-21 DOI: 10.1051/epn/2012206 [↩]
- Eecen, P.J., Bijleveld, H.A., & Sanderse, B. (2012). Wind energy research: development of advanced design tools Europhysics News, 43 (2), 29-31 DOI: 10.1051/epn/2012203 [↩]
