Chirag Kalelkar
Articles written in Resonance – Journal of Science Education
Volume 22 Issue 2 February 2017 pp 149-153 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 1. Salt Oscillator
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Thefirst article in this series is about the salt oscillator – a hydrodynamiccuriosity.
Volume 22 Issue 4 April 2017 pp 407-413 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 2. Instability of Kolmogorov Flow
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments.The second article in this series is about a simple set-up fordemonstrating the instability of Kolmogorov Flow.
Volume 22 Issue 5 May 2017 pp 485-489 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 3. Experiments with Vortex Rings
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Thethird article in this series is about vortex rings and some interestingexperiments based on them.
Volume 22 Issue 6 June 2017 pp 611-618 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer : 4. Experiments With Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Thefourth article in this series is about soap films and some interestingexperiments based on them.
Volume 22 Issue 7 July 2017 pp 697-703 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 5. Experiments with Non-Newtonian Fluids
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments.The fifth article in this series is about some fascinating experimentswith non-Newtonian fluids.
Volume 22 Issue 8 August 2017 pp 801-807 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 6. Bubble Raft
Bigyansu Behera Chirag Kalelkar
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomena in fluid dhynamics, which may be investigated via tabletop experiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. The sixth article in this series explores crystalline defects and motion of dislocations using bubble rafts.
Volume 22 Issue 9 September 2017 pp 873-878 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 7. Antibubbles
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Theseventh article in this series explores the formation, structure,and properties of antibubbles.
Volume 22 Issue 10 October 2017 pp 955-960 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 8. Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Theeighth article in this series explores and demonstratesKelvin–Helmholtz instability.
Volume 22 Issue 11 November 2017 pp 1093-1097 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 9. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Theninth article in this series explores and demonstrates Rayleigh–Taylor instability.
Volume 22 Issue 12 December 2017 pp 1213-1218 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer 10. Analog ComputingWith Soap Films
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments.The tenth article in this series demonstrates the use of thearea-minimization property of soap films in the computationof analog solutions to mathematical problems.
Volume 23 Issue 2 February 2018 pp 225-233 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 11. Marangoni Effect
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Theeleventh article in this series demonstrates the Marangoni effect.
Volume 23 Issue 4 April 2018 pp 491-497 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 12. Experiments with Air Bubbles in Liquids
In this series of articles, the author discusses various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Thetwelfth article in this series demonstrates some experimentswith air bubbles in liquids.
Volume 23 Issue 5 May 2018 pp 601-607 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 13. Experiments With Hele-Shaw Cells
Bigyansu Behera Chirag Kalelkar
In this series of articles, the authors discuss various phenom-ena in fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via table-top experiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. The thirteenth article in this series demonstrates some exper-iments with Hele–Shaw cells.
Volume 23 Issue 6 June 2018 pp 693-701 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 14. Experiments With Liquid Drops
In this series of articles, the author discusses various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments.The fourteenth article in this series demonstrates some experimentswith liquid drops.
Volume 23 Issue 7 July 2018 pp 809-819 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 15. Miscellaneous Fluid Instabilities
In this series of articles, the author discusses various phenomenain fluid dynamics, which may be investigated via tabletopexperiments using low-cost or home-made instruments. Thefifteenth article in this series demonstrates some fluid instabilities.
Volume 23 Issue 8 August 2018 pp 905-913 Classroom
The Inveterate Tinkerer: 16. Flow Visualisation
We conclude our series of articles on experiments in fluid dynamicsby listing the materials and methods employed, aswell as discuss a few experimental techniques which were notconsidered in earlier articles. Several books on flow visualisation
[1, 2] are available which the reader may wish to refer.
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