Flow Visualization Course : Galleries

2007 Gallery - Team Project 1

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, although each student was responsible for creative control of one image.

Group Alpha: Gordon Browning, Tracy Eliasson, Travis Gaskill, Trisha Harrison, Owen Hnath. These experiments were performed using shallow pools of liquid on top of a horizontal sheet of plexiglas, diffusely lit and heated from below.



Trisha Harrison Green food dye placed on corn syrup results in a fingering instability. More info.	Travis Gaskill Green dye on corn syrup, with color inversion. More info.	Tracy Eliasson Food coloring in a shallow brine solution, heated from below. More info.	Gordon Browning Food coloring in a shallow brine solution, heated from below. More info.	Owen Hnath Food coloring in a shallow brine solution, heated from below. More info.

Group Beta: Grant Crowley, Shane Fagan, Megan Firestone, Eli Luke, Kaite Mcnally. These experiments were also performed using shallow pools of liquid on top of a horizontal sheet of plexiglas, diffusely lit (and heated) from below.



Eli Luke Text. More info.	Megan Firestone Food coloring layered on corn syrup.	Kaite Mcnally Dyed water layers on corn syrup. More info.	Shane Fagan Dyed water layers on corn syrup. More info.	Grant Crowley Dyed water layers on corn syrup. More info.

Group Delta: Phil Bollam, Justin Cohee, Erik Hansen, Barry Whittaker, Ray (Hsin Jui) Wu. These experiments were performed in a Hele-Shaw flow cell, a narrow space between horizontal plexiglas sheets, viewed from above. The Saffman-Taylor fingering instability results when a less viscous fluid is injected into a more viscous fluid in the cell.



Barry Whittaker Saffman-Taylor instability causes fingering as air is injected into oil. More info.	Erik Hansen Air was pulled into oil as the top glass of the cell was lifted. More info.	Ray (Hsin Jui) Wu Dyed water injected into corn oil. More info.	Justin Cohee Dyed water injected into canola oil. More info.	Phil Bollam Food coloring was pulled into a pool of canola oil by surface tension. More info.

Group Epsilon: Geoff Duckworth, Brian Larsen, Darwin Millard, Christopher Osborn, Mark Rizzuto. This group experimented with soap films and fog. Colors are formed by interference in the thin soap films.



Darwin Millard Draining soap films change with time, thickening towards the bottom. More info.	Geoff Duckworth Draining soap film. More info.	Mark Rizzuto Draining soap film. More info.	Brian Larsen High speed (600 fps) video of bubble collapse More info.	Christopher Osborn Fun video clips with soap and fog. More info.

Group Eta: Daniel Bodenstein, Brock Ewing, Joseph Graham, Michael Long, Christopher O'Loughlin. This image shows the impact of Ky Jelly dropped onto a pool of India ink.



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Group Gamma: Amanda Barnes, Sean Hulings, Mu Hong Lin, Vanessa Ready, Brian Roche. A lump of dry ice was placed in a tank of water. The cold rising bubbles of carbon dioxide contain water vapor fog. The bubbles were photographed with a variety of lighting conditions.
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Group Zeta: Jake Dembeck, Robert Irmiger, David Levine, Christopher Miller, Brittany Moore. Combustion of WD-40, a lubricant spray, ignited by a candle flame.



Christopher Miller WD-40 flame compared to a sunset. More info.	Jake Dembeck WD-40 flame. More info.	Brittany Moore WD-40 flame ignited by a candle. More info.	Robert Irmiger WD-40 flame. More info.	David Levine Burning isopropyl alcohol floating on dish soap. More info.