In case you missed it, these videos were posted on Frostytech's Facebook page a couple days ago. Fantastically informative 1960's era university level films that visualize various Fluid Mechanics topics. Focusing on Low Reynolds Number Flow, what's interesting about these two videos is bit about pressure distribution about a journal bearing - essentially a sleeve bearing used in most computer fans.
Watch from 7:44.
Continue, for the first half of this video.
Frostytech covered sleeve bearings 12 years ago, you can see the same forces graphed here.
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