Rheoscopic fluid (Pearl Swirl) shows turbulent boundary layers in shallow channel flow.

Rheoscopic fluid (Pearl Swirl) shows turbulent boundary layers in shallow channel flow.

By Melissa Blackstun and Jason Brownstein for Spring 2014 Team Third.
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A von Karman vortex street forms in the wake of a cylinder in shallow channel flow, visualized with a rheoscopic fluid (Pearl Swirl).

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