Flow Visualization Course : Galleries

2007 Gallery - Team Project 2

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.

Group Gamma: Amanda Barnes, Sean Hulings, Mu Hong Lin, Vanessa Ready, Brian Roche. A variety of combustion experiments.



Amanda Barnes A copper wire explodes in a torch flame, leaving trails. More info.	Sean Hulings A grill dipped in zinc over an open flame.	Mu Hong Lin A grill dipped in zinc over a flame, a torch pointed downward and a pool flame. More info.	Vanessa Ready Pool flame colored purple by image processing.	Brian Roche MAPP torch heating a steel mesh. More info.	Amanda Barnes A burning plastic bag falls. More info.

Group Alpha: Gordon Browning, Tracy Eliasson, Travis Gaskill, Trisha Harrison, Owen Hnath. A rectangular tank, partially filled with water, was tipped on edge. Sunlight projected through the waters' edge to the ground, resulting in Moire interference patterns.



Tracy Eliasson More info.	Travis Gaskill More info.	Owen Hnath More info.	Gordon Browning An insect on the water surface, from above and below. More info.	Trisha Harrison More info.

Group Beta: Grant Crowley, Shane Fagan, Megan Firestone, Eli Luke, Kaite Mcnally. Obstructions were placed in an open channel flume, and viewed from the side.



Eli Luke Dye shows separated turbulent flow past an obstacle in a water tunnel. More info.	Megan Firestone Dye shows separated turbulent flow past an obstacle in a water tunnel. More info.	Kaite Mcnally During filling of a flume, a surge of water pours over an obstacle. More info.	Shane Fagan Dye shows separated turbulent flow past an obstacle in a water tunnel. More info.	Grant Crowley A drain vortex in a bottle, with the bottle erased. More info.

Group Delta: Phil Bollam, Justin Cohee, Erik Hansen, Barry Whittaker, Ray (Hsin Jui) Wu. Experiments with dye dropped into water, and CO2 bubbling up through water



Justin Cohee Subsidence of a Worthington jet, just after red food dye is dropped into water. More info.	Erik Hansen Upside down view of food coloring dropped into water, seen from below.. More info.	Phil Bollam Sinking dye in water illustrates the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. More info.	Ray (Hsin Jui) Wu Bubbles of water fog rise from a lump of dry ice underwater. More info.	Barry Whittaker A rising bubble of CO2 nears the water surface. More info.

Group Zeta: Jake Dembeck, Robert Irmiger, and Christopher Miller worked with the open channel flume; David Levine and Brittany Moore worked independently.



Robert Irmiger Breaking waves form when a critical value in the velocity shear is reached. More info.	Jake Dembeck Flow over a dam in a flume is twisted by surface tension. More info.	Christopher Miller Dyed water flows over an obstacle in a flume, with background subtracted. More info.	David Levine A boric acid and methanol mixture burns green, until WD-40 is added. More info.	Brittany Moore Suminagashi ink floats on water, viewed from above. More info.

Group Epsilon: Geoff Duckworth, Brian Larsen and Mark Rizzuto imaged methanol combustion. Darwin Millard and Christopher Osborn worked with liquid oxygen combustion.


		Methanol Flame Video
Brian Larsen Methanol burns inside a polycarbonate tube. More info.	Mark Rizzuto Methanol burns inside a polycarbonate tube. More info.	Geoff Duckworth Methanol burns inside a polycarbonate tube. More info.	Darwin Millard Ice forms on a liquid nitrogen container. More info.	Christopher Osborn A sample of lacing tape burns in liquid oxygen in an impact tester. Video of LOX combustion More info.



	Group Eta: Daniel Bodenstein, Brock Ewing, Joseph Graham, Christopher O'Loughlin Model rocket engine exhaust impinges on a steel rod and an aluminum square tube. More info from Daniel Bodenstein, Brock Ewing, Joseph Graham, and Christopher O'Loughlin.