Ronak Gupta

Ronak Gupta is pursuing a PhD in fluid mechanics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

volcano, pyroclastic flow, pyroclastic surge, volcanology, Mount Pelée, Mayon Volcano, friction, Munt Vesuvius, natural disaster,

Secret to Why the Avalanche of Smoke and Rocks From a Volcano Is so Deadly? Gas

Ronak Gupta 23/06/2019

Pyroclastic flows can reach speeds of an F1 car...

Navier-Stokes equations, Clay Mathematics Institute, Millennium Prize Problems, fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, Louis Navier, Gabriel Stokes, entropy, Newton's laws of motion, Newton's second law, three dimensions, velocity, smoothness, incompressibility, partial differential equations,

The Artful Equations of Fluids That so Few Know About

Ronak Gupta 03/05/2019

They have occupied the minds of many of the...

Event Horizon Telescope, CV Vishveshwara, black holes, M87 black hole, Sagittarius A*, Georg Bernhard Riemann, Hermann Minkowski, Marcel Grossmann, Tullio Levi-Civita, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, David Hilbert, Albert Einstein, Karl Schwarzchild, Schwarzchild radius, general theory of relativity, special theory of relativity, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, gravitational physics, Arthur Eddington, Robert Oppenheimer, John Wheeler, white dwarf, Kip Thorne, Richard Feynman, theoretical physics, mathematical physics,

A Brief History of Black Holes

Ronak Gupta 17/04/2019

Black hole research started off as a purely theoretical...

hagfish, sharks, hagfish slime, biomaterials, mathematical models, Navier-Stokes equations, Stokes regime, Newtonian fluids, hydrodynamics, drag force, inertia, US Navy,

Hagfish Slime Is Disgustipating – but It’s Also a Material From the Future

Ronak Gupta 01/03/2019

So let's start getting over how revolting it is.

robotics, evolution, David Hu, Atlas Boston Dynamics, Simone Biles, book review, How to walk on water and climb up walls, MIT, water striders, wombats, animal kingdom, cockroaches,

Review: A Book on Robotics That’s Really About How Evolution Does It Better

Ronak Gupta 12/02/2019

David Hu's is a world of constant wonder that...

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Did the Largest Predator in History Really Live in Water?

Ronak Gupta 24/10/2018

Scientists are on the fence about spinosaurus’s unique tag...

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The ‘Crazy’ Quest for the Ghosts of Universes Past and Present

Ronak Gupta 23/09/2018

Did other universes exist before ours? And if they...