Happy Bday Sherry

Saturday was Sherry's birthday and after the Michigan game (post coming later on this) Dem and I attended her birthday party. We got to spend some time with friends, eat cake, and watch a good movie (Run Fat Boy Run). So hope you had fun Sherry.

Champion of the World

Today I reclaimed the championship of the world in foosball. I assume I'm the best in the world because I won the championship in the most exclusive foosball league...the World Foosball League (WFL). The WFL is so exclusive that only two people have ever made it into the league...Sherry and I. Today in game 4 of a 5 game championship match, I was on the verge of my third victory when Sherry went on a scoring streak. In only a matter of seconds she had scored two goals to give her a 5-4 victory, which setup the match of the ages. The game was well played and after a lot of back and forth it was tied 4-4...next point is the champion of the world. I finally got possession of the ball with my offense, passed center, passed back to my center line (totally unexpected), and fired the game winner from mid-court. Well played Sherry and some day you'll get another shot at the title.

Colorful Fluid Dynamics

Video by Sherry Bian/University of Michigan

It was time to update my blog and I figured I would post something that isn't the Olympics (though there is more coming from on them...still awesome). After getting an email about a website that stories videos of fluid flows I got thinking of Sherry's great video of a driven cavity flow. This video really is pretty and scores one for experimental fluid mechanics. To date the pretty pictures and videos have been completely dominated by the computational fluid dynamics community, but Sherry scored one for us experimental folks. Above is the video and below is a picture to help explain what is going on in the video. Basically in the picture below everything that is white is water (that is slowly getting faster and faster in the video) and the non-white is Sherry's model that is not moving.