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2011 Gallery - Team 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 were encouraged to work in teams, but solo projects were allowed. In teams, students worked both as artist plus assistants, and in fully collaborative arrangements, although each student was responsible for creative control of one image or video.



Nathan Sheiko

Red dish soap between two panes of glass develops a Taylor-Saffman fingering instability as the panes are pulled apart.
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Andrew Beat

Saffman-Taylor instability.
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Andrew Bornstein, Austin Edwards, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Flouorescent laundry detergent displaced by diluted highlighter ink displays a Saffman-Taylor fingering instabilitiy.
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Matthew Phee, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks

Flouorescent laundry detergent displaced by diluted highlighter ink displays a Saffman-Taylor fingering instabilitiy.
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Tyler Coffey, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Flouorescent laundry detergent displaced by diluted highlighter ink displays a Saffman-Taylor fingering instabilitiy.
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Steven Hendricks, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Matthew Phee

Flouorescent laundry detergent displaced by diluted highlighter ink displays a Saffman-Taylor fingering instabilitiy.
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Shane Weigel, Grant Meaux,Travis Ochsner

Saffman-Taylor instability in a Hele-Shaw cell: dyed water injected into honey, color-reversed.
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Grant Meaux, Shane Weigel, Travis Ochsner

Saffman-Taylor instability in a Hele-Shaw cell: dyed water injected into honey, color-reversed.
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Travis Ochsner, Grant Meaux, Shane Weigel

Saffman-Taylor instability in a Hele-Shaw cell: dyed water injected into honey.
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Wave Flow from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow, Paul Mountford

Reubens tube: organ pipe resonance creates a pressure distribution that controls the flow of propane out of a tube.
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Daniela Molina Piper, Bailey Leppek, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow, Paul Mountford

Reubens tube: organ pipe resonance creates a pressure distribution that controls the flow of propane out of a tube.
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Scott Schollenberger, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Shane Schabow, Paul Mountford

Reubens tube: organ pipe resonance creates a pressure distribution that controls the flow of propane out of a tube.
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Shane Schabow, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Paul Mountford

Reubens tube: organ pipe resonance creates a pressure distribution that controls the flow of propane out of a tube.
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Paul Mountford, Bailey Leppek, Daniela Molina Piper, Scott Schollenberger, Shane Schabow

Reubens tube: organ pipe resonance creates a pressure distribution that controls the flow of propane out of a tube.
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Burning Cinnamon from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Logan Meyer

Ground cinnamon sprinkled over a candle flame burns as it rises in the hot, buoyant plume.
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Jonathan Crenshaw

Technology contrast: fire filmed with a cell phone.
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Road Flare from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Scott Christian-Dold

A road flare can burn underwater, at least briefly.
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In Reverse.

In Reverse from Nate Gust on Vimeo.


Nathan Gust

Phase changes, boiling, melting, burning, shown in reverse.
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Boris Lemattre

Carbon dioxide is produced by baking soda and vinegar in water. Bubbles nucleate on irregularities in the surface of raisins, which become buoyant.
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Shawn Noland

Water condensation on the ceiling of a steam room.
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Michael Vallejo, Daniel Anson, Matthew Feddersen, Bradley Samuels, Kryztopher Tung

Dyed laminar flow over a wier, color-reversed.
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Bradley Samuels, Michael Vallejo, Daniel Anson, Matthew Feddersen, Kryztopher Tung

Dyed laminar flow over a wier, color-reversed.
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Flume Flow, Tung et al. from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Kryztopher Tung, Bradley Samuels, Michael Vallejo, Daniel Anson, Matthew Feddersen

Turbulent flow in a flume.
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Flume from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Daniel Anson, Kryztopher Tung, Bradley Samuels, Michael Vallejo, Matthew Feddersen

Laminar and turbulent flow in a flume.
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Matthew Feddersen, Daniel Anson, Kryztopher Tung, Bradley Samuels, Michael Vallejo

A ventilated and an unventilated nappe (a sheet of water flowing over a dam), mirrored.
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Kyle Manhart


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Slow Dissolve from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Andrew Scholbrock, Greg Kana, Jared Hansford, Kyle Manhart, Matthew Campbell

Effervescent tablet dissolving in water, filmed at 200 frames per second.
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Gregory Kana

Turbulent flow during toilet bowl refill.
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High Flow from The Hidden Design on Vimeo.


Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock, Jared Hansford, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana

Viscoelastic materials in shear and milk jets in water, filmed at 200 to 400 fps.
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Justin Simmons, Davis Fogerty, Jaewon Kim

Fluorescent laundry detergent poured into spinning water
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Davis Fogerty, Justin Simmons, Jaewon Kim

Dilute highlighter ink poured into water.
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Jaewon Kim, Davis Fogerty, Justin Simmons

Fluorescent fluid mixing: highlighter ink into spinning tonic water.
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Stefan Berkower, Cory Fuhrmeister, Scott ChristianDold, Nate Gust

A string of saliva exhibits viscoelastic behavior.
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Cory Fuhrmeister, Scott ChristianDold, Nate Gust, Logan Meyer, Stephan Berkower

A string of saliva exhibits viscoelastic behavior.
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Impingement from Flow Visualization @ CU Boulder on Vimeo.


Jared Hansford

A droplet impact on a water surface creates a Worthington jet.
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Gary Velasquez

A stream of honey falls through water.
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John Goblirsch

Water fog from dry ice floats above even colder air in a tank.
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John Berry, Dominic Di Marco, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Dry ice causes water vapor to condense to visible fog.
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Andrew Carter, Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Dry ice causes water vapor to condense to visible fog.
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Joshua Bourquin, Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland

Dry ice causes atmospheric water vapor to condense to visible fog, and stream away from the solid.
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Dominic Di Marco, John Berry, Andrew Carter, Shawn Noland, Joshua Bourquin

Dry ice causes atmospheric water vapor to condense to visible fog, and stream away from the solid.
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Brittany Feddersen

Surface tension holds water atop coins.
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Lisa Logel

Norlin Quad on the CU Boulder campus, before and after 4:20 pm on April 20, 2011, when clouds of smoke erupt.
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Austin Edwards


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William Murray


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