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2009 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.



Chris Bonilha, Loren Heiman, Scott Legg, Ryan Thorpe, Aaron Willoughby

The wake of an obstruction in a flume is reflected off the side walls.
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Loren Heiman, Scott Legg, Ryan Thorpe, Aaron Willoughby, Chris Bonilha

Surface waves form upstream of an obstacle in an open channel flow, viewed from below.
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Scott Legg, Ryan Thorpe, Aaron Willoughby, Chris Bonilha, Loren Heiman

Surface waves form upstream of a mutant ninja turtle obstacle in an open channel flow.
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Ryan Thorpe, Aaron Willoughby, Chris Bonilha, Loren Heiman, Scott Legg

Injected dye shows flow over an obstacle.
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Aaron Willoughby, Chris Bonilha, Loren Heiman, Scott Legg, Ryan Thorpe

Water cascades over an obstacle in a flume.
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James McNeill, Kenny Grosvenor, James Kostrzewa, Jeffrey Payne, Tom Rachlin

Oil beads smoke on a heated wire
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Kenny Grosvenor, James Kostrzewa, James McNeill, Jeffrey Payne, Tom Rachlin

Stage fog shows ventilation flows in a mock operating room, reflected in a metal table.
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Tom Rachlin, Kenny Grosvenor, James Kostrzewa, James McNeill, Jeff Payne

Oil beads smoke on a heated wire in a ventilation flow.
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Jeff Payne, Kenny Grosvenor, James Kostrzewa, James McNeill, Tom Rachlin

Oil beads smoke on a heated wire in a ventilation flow, with B/W inversion.
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Larissa Rhodes, Brian Hancz, William Murray, Mark Reusser

A Tesla coil creates paths of plasma in the air.
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Brian Hancz, William Murray, Mark Reusser, Larissa Rhodes

A Tesla coil creates paths of plasma in the air.
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William Murray, Mark Reusser, Larissa Rhodes, Brian Hancz

A Tesla coil creates paths of plasma in the air, shown with color inversion.
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Diverge/Converge
Mark Reusser, Larissa Rhodes, William Murray and Brian Hancz

A Tesla coil creates plasma that arcs through air.
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Austin Ruppert

Turbulence illustrated by streaming birefringence.
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Jason Ortmann

Swirling water in a glass is dyed.
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Spencer Rich

Stage fog shows vortex rings from a Zero Launcher toy.
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Nathan Lester

Dye flows over a weir in an open water channel (flume).
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Jayson DeBellis

Cornstarch and water (oobleck) cascades down an incline.
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Lucy Dean, Joseph Duggan, Tim Jarrell, Melissa Lucht

White gas (naptha) pool flame in wind.
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Melissa Lucht, Lucy Dean, Joseph Duggan, Tim Jarrell,

White gas (naptha) pool flame in wind.
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Tim Jarrell, Lucy Dean, Joseph Duggan, Melissa Lucht

White gas (naptha) pool flame in wind.
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Joseph Duggan, Lucy Dean,Tim Jarrell, Melissa Lucht

White gas (naptha) pool flame in wind.
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Kane Chinnel, Corey Davis, David Ramirez

Corn syrup surface tension pulls blue food coloring on foil.
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David Ramirez, Kane Chinnel, Corey Davis

Baking soda and vinegar form a precipitate which falls through a dye layer into corn syrup.
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Corey Davis, Kane Chinnel, David Ramirez

Corn syrup settles out of dyed hot water.
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Chip Fisher

Hot wax solidifies on contact with water, and floats.
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Dan Ives

A torch heats a space-capsule-shaped object.
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Joseph VanAmberg, Matthew Blessinger, Dung Dinh Luu, Kevin McCoy

A fire extinguisher set off underwater creates a three phase (solid, liquid, gas) flow. Rising bubbles of the propellant are filled with clouds of powder.
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Dung Dinh Luu, Matthew Blessinger, Kevin McCoy, Joseph VanAmberg

A fire extinguisher set off underwater creates a three phase (solid, liquid, gas) flow. Rising bubbles of the propellant are filled with clouds of powder.
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Kevin McCoy, Matthew Blessinger, Dung Dinh Luu, Joseph VanAmberg

A fire extinguisher set off underwater creates a three phase (solid, liquid, gas) flow. Rising bubbles of the propellant are filled with clouds of powder.
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Solid in Gas in Liquid
Matthew Blessinger, Dung Dinh Luu, Kevin McCoy and Joseph VanAmberg

A fire extinguisher set off underwater creates a three phase (solid, liquid, gas) flow. Rising bubbles of the propellant are filled with clouds of powder.
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Ben Bishop

The Kaye Effect: a falling stream of shampoo jets out sideways when it hits a pocket of air in the puddle below.
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