'Brainiacs' Episode 9: Demystifying Straws, Predicting Famine, and Knocking Out Anxiety
“We found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube,” explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an author of a new study in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
“We found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube,” explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and an author of a new study in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.