Image: Flow Visualization - A Course in the Physics and Art of Fluid Flow
Flow Visualization Home Old Galleries
2004 Gallery - Team Project 3
For most of the semester, students were put in mixed teams of graduate and undergraduate, photography and engineering. The teams were given access to a range of flow visualization equipment and experiments, and were also encouraged to create their own apparatus. Students worked both as artist plus assistants, and in fully collaborative arrangements.
  Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image.  
 
Chris Wilke, Katina Butler, Kerstin Lieff, Adrien Robert

Liquid detergent applied to the surface of dyed milk creates a surface tension driven flow.
Movie (.avi), 377 Kb
Joshua Grages

Turbulent spray combustion is illustrated by ignition of a plume of WD-40.
More info.
Bronwyn Hayworth, Clay Corbett, Sarah Robinson

Color schlieren shows regions of steep temperature (density) gradients as a blowtorch impinges on a metal shovel.
More info.
Clay Corbett, Bronwyn Hayworth, Sarah Robinson

A Color schlieren image of a buoyant plume.
 
  Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image.    
 
Sarah Robinson

A bubble of glass being heated by a propane-oxygen torch.
Karl Hausmann

A Coanda effect curves an oxy/acetylene torch impinging on a 3/8" iron cylinder.
Lindsey Wohlman, Rick Silva, Eric Larson

Room air currents are visualized with stage fog and illuminated with a sheet of laser light.
Laurel Swift, Karl Hausmann, Joshua Grages, Lauren Courtney

Positive buoyancy of red food coloring in a strong sucrose/water solution.
   
  Click to view larger image. Click to view larger image.    
 
Aaron Brown, Matt Weber, Marilyn Poon, Sascha Hughes-Caley

A 2 foot soap bubble, outdoors.
More info.
Chris Fauble, David Harbaugh, Jennifer Masini, Robin Parsons

An elliptic vortex ring, oscillates several times before impinging on a wall. It was visualized with stage fog, puffed out of a box through a 3" X 5.5" oval hole.
Movie (.avi), 62 Kb