Forget about pronouncing his name. This scientist along with his Harvard colleagues has actually devised instructions on how to make a magic carpet! They were the logical conclusion following the study of the aerodynamics involved in a flexible, rippling sheet moving through a fluid. Researchers came to the amazing conclusion that making a carpet that would stay aloft may well be possible.
Mahadevan told Nature Magazine
“In order to stay afloat in air, a sheet measuring about 10 centimeters long and 0.1 millimeters thick would need to vibrate at about 10 hertz with amplitude of about 0.25 millimeters. As waves propagate along a flexible foil, they generate a fluid flow that leads to a pressure that lifts the foil, roughly balancing its weight.”
Researchers have confirmed that a magic carpet needs a ripple uplift that pushes against fluids like air and water. The rippling creates a high pressure in the gap between a horizontal sheet and the floor.
“In order to stay afloat in air, a sheet measuring about 10 centimeters long and 0.1 millimeters thick would need to vibrate at about 10 hertz with amplitude of about 0.25 millimeters. As waves propagate along a flexible foil, they generate a fluid flow that leads to a pressure that lifts the foil, roughly balancing its weight.”
Researchers have confirmed that a magic carpet needs a ripple uplift that pushes against fluids like air and water. The rippling creates a high pressure in the gap between a horizontal sheet and the floor.
For now at least, the magic carpet will not be able to ferry passengers. Well, we can’t have everything, can we?
Source: http://www.gadgetell.com/2007/12/gravity-defying-carpet-a-soon-to-be-reality/
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