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2011 Gallery - Team 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.



Cory Fuhrmeister, Nathan Gust, Logan Meyer, Scott Christian-Dold and Stefan Berkower

An air balloon, popped underwater.
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Scott Christian-Dold, Cory Fuhrmeister, Nathan Gust, Logan Meyer, Stefan Berkower

A balloon, popped underwater. Filmed at 20,000 frames per second courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Stefan Berkower, Cory Fuhrmeister, Nathan Gust, Logan Meyer and Scott Christian-Dold

A balloon, popped underwater. Sequence from video filmed at 20,000 frames per second courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Nathan Gust, Stefan Berkower, Cory Fuhrmeister, Logan Meyer and Scott Christian-Dold

Balloons filled with dyed water were popped underwater.
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Logan Meyer, Stefan Berkower, Scott Christian-dold, Cory Fuhrmeister and Nathan Gust.

Balloons filled with dyed water were popped underwater. Filmed at 20,000 frames per second, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Justin Simmons, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty and Lisa Logel

Kelvin-Helmholtz wave between vegetable oil and dyed water.
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Davis Fogerty, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Lisa Logel and Justin Simmons

Kelvin-Helmholtz wave between vegetable oil and dyed water.
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Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty, Lisa Logel and Justin Simmons

Kelvin-Helmholtz wave between vegetable oil and dyed water.
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Lisa Logel, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty and Justin Simmons

A bubbly interface between vegetable oil and dyed water.
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Brittany Feddersen, Jaewon Kim, Davis Fogerty, Lisa Logel and Justin Simmons

A one inch bubble of vegetable oil strains upward through dyed water.
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Jonathan Crenshaw, Shane Weigel, Grant Meaux, William Murray, Travis Ochsner

A color-reversed still from a high speed video of flash paper (nitrocellulose) combustion.
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Travis Ochsner, Jonathan Crenshaw, Shane Weigel, Grant Meaux, William Murray

A paper chain of flash paper (nitrocellulose) burns, filmed at5,000 frames per second, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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William Murray, Jonathan Crenshaw, Shane Weigel, Grant Meaux, Travis Ochsner

Flash paper (nitrocellulose) burns, filmed at 5,000 frames per second, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Grant Meaux, Jonathan Crenshaw, Travis Oschner, William Murray, Shane Weigel

Flash paper (nitrocellulose) burns, filmed at5,000 frames per second, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Shane Weigel

A burning garden hose produces colorful flames and toxic gases.
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Michael Vallejo, Matthew Feddersen, Kryztopher D. Tung, Bradley Samuels, Daniel Anson

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water. Here it is dyed and rotated in a bucket.
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Bradley Samuels, Matthew Feddersen, Kryztopher D. Tung, Daniel Anson, and Michael Vallejo

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water. Here it is dyed and poured.
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Kryztopher D. Tung, Matthew Feddersen, Bradley Samuels, Daniel Anson, and Michael Vallejo

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water. Here it is dyed and poured.
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Matthew Feddersen, Kryztopher D. Tung, Bradley Samuels, Daniel Anson, and Michael Vallejo

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water. Here it is dyed and poured.
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Daniel Anson, Matthew Feddersen, Kryztopher D. Tung, Bradley Samuels, and Michael Vallejo

Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid made of cornstarch and water. Here it is dyed and manipulated.
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Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Turbulent flow in a flume around an obstacle, visualized with dye, and color-reversed.
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Gregory Kana, Kyle Manhart, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Turbulent flow in a flume around an obstacle, visualized with dye, and color-reversed.
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Andrew Scholbrock, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell

Turbulent flow in a flume around an obstacle, visualized with dye.
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Jared Hansford, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Turbulent flow in the wake of an obstacle, visualized with dye.
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Matthew Campbell, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Andrew Scholbrock

Turbulent flow in a flume around an obstacle, visualized with dye, and partially filmed from underwater, downstream of the obstacle.
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Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Ferrofluid, trapped between two magnets, climbs on a machine screw.
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High Speed Ferrofluid from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Shawn Noland, Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Andrew Carter, Joshua Bourquin

Ferrofluid, trapped between two magnets. Filmed at 2000 fps, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Joshua Bourquin, Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland

Ferrofluid, trapped between two magnets. Filmed at 2000 fps, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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John Berry, Dominic Di Marco, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Ferrofluid, moving between two magnets.
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Andrew Carter, Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Ferrofluid, trapped between two magnets, with the top magnet moving. Filmed at 2000 fps, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

A model rocket engine on a test stand.
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Steven Hendricks, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Matthew Phee

An Aerotech G-64 White Lightning rocket motor was clamped to a test stand, and filmed at 7000 frames per second, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Andrew Bornstein, Austin Edwards, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Matches ignite in a row, filmed at 5000 fps, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Matthew Phee, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks

Matches ignite in a row. Stills from a 5000 frames per second video, courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Tyler Coffey, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Matches ignite in a row. Filmed at 5000 frames per second courtesy of Vision Research and their Phantom 710 camera.
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Paul Mountford, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow

A marble dropped into supercooled water triggered ice to form.
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Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow, Paul Mountford

A marble dropped into supercooled water triggered ice to form.
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Daniela Molina Piper, Bailey Leppek, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow, Paul Mountford

A marble dropped into supercooled water triggered ice to form.
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Scott Schollenberger, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Shane Schabow and Paul Mountford

A marble dropped into supercooled water triggered ice to form, shot at 1000 fps by an Olympus i-Speed camera.
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Shane Schabow, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Paul Mountford

Dyed water was added to the liquid core of an ice cube partway through freezing.
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Andrew Beat, John Goblirsch, Boris Lemattre, Nathan Sheiko, Gary Velasquez

The wake of a 3 mm rod in dyed milk shows a von Karman vortex street.
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John Goblirsch, Andrew Beat, Boris Lemattre, Nathan Sheiko, Gary Velasquez

The wake of a 3 mm rod in dyed milk shows a von Karman vortex street.
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Nathan Sheiko, Boris Lemattre, Andrew Beat, John Goblirsch and Gary Velasquez

The wake of a 3 mm rod in dyed milk shows a von Karman vortex street.
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Boris Lemattre, Andrew Beat, John Goblirsch, Nathan Sheiko, Gary Velasquez

Crazy Milk: dish soap on milk with food coloring creates a surface tension driven flow.
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Gary Velasquez, Boris Lemattre, Andrew Beat, John Goblirsch and Nathan Sheiko

Soap creates a surface tension driven flow in dyed milk.
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