However, flow rate proved to be a critical factor. The scientists found the water flowed only about two times slower in the nonpreferred direction. A team of scientists at New York University built a working Tesla valve in 2021, in accordance with the inventor's design, and tested that claim by measuring the flow of water through the valve in both directions at various pressures. Tesla claimed that water would flow through his valve 200 times slower in one direction than another, which may have been an exaggeration.
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In his patent application, Tesla described this series of 11 flow-control segments as being made of "enlargements, recessions, projections, baffles, or buckets which, while offering virtually no resistant to the passage of fluid in one direction, other than surface friction, constitute an almost impassable barrier to its flow in the opposite direction." And because it achieves this with no moving parts, a Tesla valve is much more resistant to the wear and tear of frequent operation.
The key to Tesla's ingenious valve design is a set of interconnected, asymmetric, tear-shaped loops. "We developed a new method to digitally scan these tissues and now can look at the soft tissues in such great detail without having to slice into them." "It's high time that some modern technology was used to look at these really amazing spiral intestines of sharks," said coauthor Samantha Leigh of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more.
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