In January 1919, Boston was home to one of the most surreal accidents of all time -- the Great Molasses Flood! Nicole explains the disaster and the physics that made cold molasses so deadly.
Featuring original research by Nicole Sharp, Jordan Kennedy (Harvard SEAS), and Shmuel Rubinstein (Harvard SEAS).
Written, voiced, produced, edited, and animated by Nicole Sharp.
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References
Dorr vs. United States Industrial Alcohol Company
Huppert, H. E., and Simpson, J. E., “The slumping of gravity currents,” J. Fluid Mech. 99, 1980. [ Ссылка ]
Huppert, H. E., “The propagation of two-dimensional and axisymmetric viscous gravity currents over a rigid horizontal surface,” J. Fluid Mech. 121, 1982. [ Ссылка ]
Kármán, T. von, “The engineer grapples with nonlinear problems,” Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 46, 1940.
Puleo, S., “Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919,” 2004.
Sharp, N. S., Kennedy, J., and Rubinstein, S., “In a sea of sticky molasses: The physics of the Boston Molasses Flood,” APS Division of Fluid Dynamics annual meeting, 2016. [ Ссылка ]
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Camera
Nicole Sharp
Joseph Shoer
Research Collaborators
Jordan Kennedy
Shmuel Rubinstein
Special Thanks To
Molly Edwards
Herbert Huppert
Andrew Hyland
Elena Kramer
Kirsten Leary
National Weather Service
Stephen Puleo
Social Law Library, Boston, MA
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