Great course for MSc students to learn how to write scientific proposals. Always nice to co-teach this course with other staff from Wageningen University!
Author Archives: joshuadijksman
Adhesion meter
Admittedly, it’s a crappy first version, but it works.
Particle physics at the Imaging School in Erlangen
The strangely satisfying dynamics of a rotating sphere floating on a thin layer of water. Can you estimate the pressure needed to lift the sphere? See also here.
Poster sessions are always nice
And Kalman Migler is a pleasant person to talk to :).
Solidworks works
The first WUR course in Solidworks is set up!
Thin film funnel flows
First try worked already. Probing the interaction between substrate curvature and instabilities in thin films. On a flat plane, a hole in a fluid collapses symmetrically, but on cylinder the front is unstable. What about the intermediate case?
Talk at Teacher’s Day Wageningen University
In summer 2015 we made an effort to make instructional videos for our freshman General Chemistry lab classes. Other teachers also wanted to hear about how to do this!
Obtaining self-similar scalings in focusing flows
Long story short: extracting power law exponents from even very clean numerical data is hard, but there are some good tricks around :). Do check the erratum that fixes a small, strange but possibly very confusing typo that crept in…
A simple low pressure drop suspension based microfluidic mixer
How to mix very viscous fluids? Add some particles while stirring. Ice cubes may work but simple glass beads also work just fine. Thanks Vittorio for contributing.
3D printing rheology tools
Not quite accurate enough for a plate, but the solvent trap works.
MultiPhase Matters 