Generative Engineering | Critical Infrastructure | Co-Founder & CCO
What happens when you combine fluid mechanics, differential equations, and public restroom design? 🚾 You get... the world's first splash-free urinal. 🚽 I'm totally geeking out over the latest from researchers at the University of Waterloo and Weber State University who have cracked a century-old design problem: urinal splashback. By solving the "isogonal curve problem" and using some seriously impressive math, the team created two new urinal designs — the Cornucopia and the Nautilus — that keep the urine stream under a critical impact angle (∼30°) to virtually eliminate splash. ✅ 95% less splash than modern urinals ✅ Better hygiene and accessibility ✅ Saves millions of liters of cleaning water daily ✅ And yes... a cleaner experience for everyone involved Even better: they also invented the "urine-no" — a hostile anti-urination wall that maximizes splashback to deter public urination. (Talk about fluid dynamics weaponized 😂.) The moral of the story? Sometimes the solutions to big problems (like global sanitation and water conservation) start by rethinking the "small" stuff — with a little physics and a lot of creativity. 🔗 Full (and fascinating) paper in the first comment below 👇 #Engineering #Water #Wastewater #innovation