When framed correctly, the patterns on a soap bubble can look like the weather systems of a planet.

When framed correctly, the patterns on a soap bubble can look like the weather systems of a planet.

May 12, 2014 00:00

2014, 2014 Team First, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Foams and Soap Bubbles, Images, Media, Multiphase, Soap Films, Thin Film Interference, z Class & Assignment

By Jonathan Fraker, Alexandra Banks, Rachel Sobke, and Taylor Powers for Spring 2014 Team First.
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Interference of light waves generates a rainbow of colors on the surface of a soap bubble.

Dyed water and air injected into honey produces the Taylor-Saffman instability in a Hele-Shaw cell. The pressure of rapidly injecting water lifted the top sheet, inducing the instability around the outer edge of the honey as air entered.

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