Dr RICHARD HILL's Outputs (2)

Magnetic Levitation Stabilized by Streaming Fluid Flows (2018)
Journal Article
Fairhurst, D., Swift, M., Hill, R., Atkinson, P., Baldwin, K., Baldwin, K., de Fouchier, J.-B., Atkinson, P., Hill, R., Swift, M., & Fairhurst, D. (2018). Magnetic Levitation Stabilized by Streaming Fluid Flows. Physical Review Letters, 121(6), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.121.064502

We demonstrate that the ubiquitous laboratory magnetic stirrer provides a simple passive method of magnetic levitation, in which the so-called ‘flea’ levitates indefinitely. We study the onset of levitation and quantify the flea’s motion (a combinati... Read More about Magnetic Levitation Stabilized by Streaming Fluid Flows.

Centrifugally forced Rayleigh–Taylor instability (2018)
Journal Article
Scase, M. M., & Hill, R. J. (2018). Centrifugally forced Rayleigh–Taylor instability. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 852, 543-577. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.539

We consider the effect of high rotation rates on two liquid layers that initially form concentric cylinders, centred on the axis of rotation. The configuration may be thought of as a fluid-fluid centrifuge. There are two types of perturbation to the... Read More about Centrifugally forced Rayleigh–Taylor instability.