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2010 Gallery - Team 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, although each student was responsible for creative control of one image.



Jonathan Varkovitzky, Chris Svedman, Peter Mitrano

Only one 'bathtub vortex' formed in a bucket with two holes in the bottom, viewed from the top with food dye.
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Peter Mitrano, Jonathan Varkovitzky, Chris Svedman

Only one 'bathtub vortex' formed in a bucket with two holes in the bottom, viewed from the top with food dye.
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Chris Svedman, John Varkovitzky, Peter Mitrano

A 'bathtub vortex' formed in a bucket with a hole in the bottom, viewed from the top with food dye.
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Vien Nguyen, Tony Vo

Dyed water displaces liquid hand soap illustrating the Saffman-Taylor instability.
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Tony Vo, Vien Nguyen

Color reversal of dyed water displacing liquid hand soap: the Saffman-Taylor instability.
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Patrick Wessels

Air (yellow region) fingers into a mixture of vegetable oil, water and dye in a diverging Hele Shaw cell.
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John Murray

Flaming ping pong ball.
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Harrison Fast

Flame from burning charcoal lighter fluid, with blue added in Photoshop.
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Jessica Lucia, Ben Maples, Jon Fragoso

Four colors of enamel paint burning on aluminum foil.
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Jake Gigliotti

Hairspray combustion.
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Jade Jauquet

Hairspray combustion around a bluff body
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Joseph Eisinger

Plasma formed across a spark gap.
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Terese Decker, Jason Carranza, Jon Vander Weele

Oobleck (corn starch and water) excited by a long stroke shaker.
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Jon Vander Weele, Terese Decker, Jason Carranza

Food dye in oobleck vericially excited by a shaker table.
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Jon Vander Weele, Terese Decker, Jason Carranza

Food dye in oobleck vericially excited by a shaker table, color enhanced in Photoshop.
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Daniel Notary, Nathan Weigle, Allison Hamrick

Ferrofluid on a magnetized bolt.
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Nathan Weigle, Allison Hamrick

Ferrofluid on a magnetized bolt.
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Benjamin Britton

Color reversal of the Bellagio Hotel fountain in Las Vegas, with jets 460 feet tall.
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Levey Tran, Josh Stockwell and Ilya Lisenker

Axial view of a vortex ring visualized with smoke.
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Josh Stockwell Levey Tran, Ilya Lisenker

Axial view of a vortex ring visualized with smoke.
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Ilya Lisenker, Levey Tran, Josh Stockwell

Axial view of a vortex ring visualized with smoke.
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Eric Stahl

Downward view into a bucket. Evaporation fog formed by ice water is disturbed by water falling from above.
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Benjamin Maples

Water fog from an ultrasonic humidifier.
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Randy Williams

Blue dust from a smoke bomb blows in the wind.
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Matthew Schulte

An incense smoke plume transitioning from laminar to turbulent flow.
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Jonathan Fragoso

Smoke plume from a sealing wax candle
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Allison Hamrick and Nathan Weigle

Ferrofluid coating a disk magnet.
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Stephen Lepke

An arc of water from a fountain. Vail CO.
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Patrick Zimmer

Surface tension and the Coanda effect allow a cat to drink.
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Yevgeniy Fedotov

Falling snow.
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