Upstream contamination
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upstream-contamination-268-7767543
title:
Upstream contamination
text:
Upstream contamination by floating particles is a counterintuitive phenomenon in fluid dynamics. When pouring water from a higher container to a lower one, particles floating in the latter can climb upstream into the upper container. A definitive explanation is still lacking: experimental and computational evidence indicates that the contamination is chiefly driven by surface tension gradients, however the phenomenon is also affected by the dynamics of swirling flows that remain to be fully inve
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Contaminants moving opposite of flow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_contamination
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-19T01:27:17Z
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