Oil Spill Flow Calculation Worksheet

18 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

Worksheet to calculate the approximate flow rate based on video images.

BP Oil Spill Physics Challenge

17 Feb 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill. Several other independent scientists also performed similar measurements at about the same time. These several measurements were all in the ballpark of …

Particle Velocity Estimate

20 Jan 2011 | Tools | Contributor(s): derrick kearney, Steve Wereley

Track particles and estimate their velocity

Measuring Disaster: the magnitude of the BP oil spill

14 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

On May 13 Professor Wereley used optical feature tracking to estimate the volume flow of oil from the on-going BP Macondo oil field spill.

Analyzing Disaster: A nanoscale guy stumbles into a mega problem

19 Jun 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

Steve Wereley discusses how his knowledge and use of a technique called particle image velocimetry (PIV) led to a game-changing calculation of a flow rate for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

What is "Nanofluidics"? or The Nano-izing of Fluid Mechanics

28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

Micro- and nanoscaled fluid mechanics are rapidly emerging as important supporting fields in biomedical technology, nanotechnology, etc., as well as being important fields of study in their own right. Despite the common use of these terms in the literature, the fluid behavior at these small length …