- Science
- Global
From ship wakes to soft tissues: Exploring fluid and solid surface-wave physics
- April 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
- 99 views
A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a pressure disturbance moves across an ultrasoft elastic material, such as a gel or a biological tissue, it generates a V-shaped wake that's strikingly similar to the waves that travel behind a boat.
Originally published at Phys.org