Now, a team of researchers has found an answer.
(The experiment ended when a large water-filled bottle exploded.)
Now, a team of researchers at New York University have run it back.
A photo of dyed water being ejected from the team’s sprinkler.Photo:NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory
The reverse sprinkler redux (as I call itrolls right off the tongue!)
It rotates in the opposite direction to a sprinkler ejecting water.
But the reverse sprinkler is mysterious since the water being sucked in doesnt look at all like jets.
I hope this gives you something to sprinkle into your next conversation about fluid dynamics.
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