This activity from the Exploratorium provides a classic science demonstration of the buoyancy of a Cartesian diver, named after scientist René Descartes. A diver made from an eyedropper or Bic™ pen is made to float,...

This site contains an activity utilizing a Cartesian diver, a tube that barely floats when placed in water. The diver is made from a condiment packet and placed in a squeezable plastic bottle where it will float, sink,...

This demonstration provides an aesthetic way to view convection currents in fluids. Water warmed by an electric circuit mixes with the surrounding cooler water creating turbulence effects that bend light; the resulting...

This site from the University of Bristol’s Mathematics department contains an explanation of drop formation and its applications. A description of studies of drop separation and its applications in medicine and...

Started over ten years ago, eFluids is a "specialty web portal designed to serve as a one-stop web information resource for anyone working the areas of flow engineering, fluid mechanics research, education, and directly...