Class Details
Enrollment is being expanded; non-engineers with an interest in film, photography and fluids are particularly welcome. This is an upper division course, not suitable for first or second year students. Mechanical engineering students are expected to have had a course in fluids. The class is cross listed. Everybody will work together, and what each person brings to the table will be valued. My expectations will be tailored for students’ different backgrounds, but this is really a fail-safe course. What you get out of it depends on what you put in. See Is Flow Vis Right For You? for more info.
If you are interested, you can consider this an open course. All the materials you need are provided here; textbook, lecture notes, lecture videos, and assignments. I won’t be able to post your images here, but you could post them on the Facebook Flow Visualization group, and get informal feedback from the community. If you attempt this, please drop me a line: hertzberg@colorado.edu. I’ll help you in any way I can.
Fall 2024: Lecture MWF 12:20-1:10, ITLL 1B50. Lectures will also be zoomed and recorded, but in-person attendance is expected as much as possible. Zoom link will be in Slack and on Canvas.
Instructor
Prof. Jean Hertzberg
e: hertzberg@colorado.edu
p: 303.492.5092
Professor website: http://jeanbizhertzberg.com.
Personal professional photography site: BizHertzberg.com
Mail: 427 UCB
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
U. of Colorado – Boulder, 80309
Office: ECME 220
Office hours: Right after class, nearby. Or email me for an appointment in my actual office, in ECME 220. Monday and Friday afternoons and early evenings are best, and Tuesday Thursday via zoom. I love to look at student work and hear about your setups and plans! I won’t edit for you, but I’ll counsel you through your own editing process.
TA:Anjali Shadija <AnjaliSanjaykumar.Shadija@colorado.edu> can help you with WordPress, Canvas, photography, video editing and administrative stuff.
Canvas website, for submission of archival work
Lecture Notes 2024
Notes PDFs
04 Creative Commons licenses and Posting demo
06 Workflow, Cameras, Darktable
09 Lenses: focal length, focus, compression
10 Aperture, DOF, shutter speed
13 Clouds – lift mechanisms, instability
14 Clouds 2 – Skew-T and stability
15 Clouds 3 – ACSL and synoptic lift
20 Exposure Review, Dye Techniques 1
Lecture Notes 2022 Fall
Zoom recordings are posted on Vimeo
PDFs
01: Syllabus and Initial Assignments
02: Overview 1: choices, forces, seeded boundary technique
03: Overview 2: posting demo, refractive index technique
04: Overview 3: rheoscopic fluids, particle tracking, lighting. Sorry, no video for this lecture.
05: Overview4: Photography 1 – workflow and cameras
06: Photo 2 – Post Processing (darktable)
07a: Critique: the Critical Response Method
08: Critique logistics and more CRM
11: Exposure – Aperture, Shutter and ISO
12: Finish Exposure, Start Clouds
14: Clouds 3 – More Instability and Common Clouds
15: Resolution – Spatial. Sorry, no lecture recording.
17: Resolution – Measurand = Light
19: Dye Techniques – Do Not Disturb
20: Dye Techniques – Max Visibility
21: Particles 1 – Particle Paths
22: Particles 2 – Scattering and Sources
24: Particles 4 – Hydrogen Bubbles
Lecture Notes 2020 Fall
Zoom recordings of the lectures from the semester are available; contact me for access.
01 Intro and Syllabus: PDF
02 Initial Assignments and start Overview: PDF
03 Overview: Common FV techniques: seeded boundary and refractive index: PDF
04. Overview 2/Photog 1: Refractive index, particle tracking, lighting: PDF
05. Photog 1: Cameras and lenses: PDF
06. Postprocessing: Filetypes and Darktable: PDF
07. Darktable and Critique Technique: PDF
08. Video Editing: PDF
09. Facilities and equipment: PDF
Byron Rudisill’s presentation on Idea Forge access for this semester.
10. Aperture, DOF, shutter speeds: PDF
11. Exposure: PDF
12.Clouds1 – Skew-T intro: PDF
13.Clouds2 – Skew-T, instability and mountain wave clouds: PDF
14.Clouds3 – Ororgraphics and weather systems: PDF
15.Resolution1 – Spatial Resolution: PDF
16. Resolution2 – more spatial resolution: PDF
17. Resolution 3 – Temporal resolution: PDF
18. Resolution 4 – Bit Depth to Dye Tech: PDF
19. Dye Techniques and light/matter interaction: PDF
20. Light Emitting Fluids – combustion and fluorescence: PDF
21. Schlieren and shadowgraphy: PDF
22. Particles 1- trajectories: PDF
23. Particles 2 – aerosols: PDF
24. Particles 3 – fogs: PDF
25. Vorticity: PDF
26. Guest lecture from Linden Gledhill: PDF
27. Aesthetics in Flow Vis: PDF
28. Art and Science, Engineering and Photography: PDF
Lecture Notes 2019 Fall
02 Initial Assignments and start Overview
03 Overview 2: Common FV techniques: seeded boundary and refractive index
04. Overview 3/Photog 1: Particle tracking, lighting, lenses
07. Team Expectations. Facilities and Equipment
10. Aperture, DOF, shutter speeds
18. Resolution 4: time to bit depth page1, page 2 -5
20. Light/matter interaction and refractive index methods
Lecture Notes 2018 Fall
04 Photography 1 Framing, cameras, lenses
09.Exposure1: aperture
Lecture Notes 2018 Spring
02 Initial Assignments and start Overview
03 Overview 2: Forces and common FV techniques
04. Overview 3: Refractive index, lighting
05 Photography 1 Framing, cameras
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Flow Vis Guidebook
- Introduction to the Guidebook
- Overview 1: Phenomena. Why Does It Look Like That?
- Overview 2: Visualization Techniques
- Overview 3: Lighting
- Overview 4 - Photography A: Composition and Studio Workflow
- Overview 4 - Photography B: Cameras
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Focal Length
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Aperture and DOF
- Overview 4: Photography D: Exposure
- Overview 4 - Photography E - Resolution
- Overview 5 - Post-Processing
- Clouds 1: Names
- Clouds 2: Why Are There Clouds? Lift Mechanism 1: Instability
- Clouds 3: Skew - T and Instability
- Clouds 4: Clouds in Unstable Atmosphere
- Clouds 5: Lift Mechanism 2 - Orographics
- Clouds 6: Lift Mechanism 3 - Weather Systems
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Refractive Index Techniques 1: Liquid Surfaces
- Refractive Index Techniques 2: Shadowgraphy and Schlieren
- Particle Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water - Under Construction
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color