On beautiful Saturday morning, I had a chance to visit the North Carolina Museum of Art. Surprisingly, there were more people walking around the park than people were actually in the museum. There was an ongoing park project on pond renovation. The purpose of this renovation is to increase a capacity of the pond on holding water and mange excessive amounts of water flowing down to the pond, on occasions of heavy raining. Brilliantly, they placed rocks on a downhill towards to the pond in order to decrease a flow rate of water, and also placed several small reservoirs around the pond to hold water instead directly leading it to the pond. It was very interesting as I just took a fluid dynamics class and I could point out several principles of fluid dynamics on the renovation project. Even though the pond was only renovated to mange water flowing into the museum area, but I do think this kind of idea can apply to a bigger scale.
Sung-Min Baik
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