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| Research Helps to Show How Turbulence Can Occur Without Inertia | |||
Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows about turbulence, or when the flow of air over the wings becomes chaotic and unstable. For more than a century, the field of fluid mechanics has posited that turbulence scales with inertia, and so massive things, like planes, have an easier time causing it. Now, research led by MEAM's Paulo Arratia has shown that this transition to turbulence can occur without inertia at all. |
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| TitanArm Receives First Place at 2013 Intel Cornell Cup | |||
Team Titan returned to Penn Engineering the First Place winners of the 2013 Intel Cornell Cup. Team members are Elizabeth Beattie, a senior in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Nick McGill, a senior majoring in both MEAM and Electrical and Systems Engineering, Nick Parrotta, a senior in MEAM, and Niko Vladimirov, a senior in MEAM. |
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| ModLab's TEMP: Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform | |||
For one group of MEAM students, a late night at the gym doesn't mean a few extra reps on the weight machine. Professor Mark Yim and his students in the ModLab are working as part of a collaboration to design a system of moving shipping containers that can link together to form islands, bridges and landing strips. At Penn, Yim and his team are building a scale model of the system. |
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| On and Off the Mat With Scholar-Athlete Mike Steltenkamp | |||
| "Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy," or so said legendary Olympic gold medalist Dan Gable. Does this include working toward a degree in Mechanical Engineering at Penn? Mike Steltenkamp, a Penn Engineering senior and Penn wrestler, recently considered the quote and found a good deal of truth in it. But even as the sport, for him, "consumes body, mind and spirit," it has rewarded him with myriad skills and lessons he can apply to the game of life. | |||
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Our Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics students can print their designs using a Dimension Elite 3D printer. Check it out!
Stir Liquids Using Magnetic Fields!
Magneto-hydrodynamics provides us with a convenient means for stirring liquids. By appropriate patterning of the electrodes, one can induce forces in different directions and generate complex flow patterns. Read the paper or watch the video!
