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2011 Gallery - Team 2
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.



Shane Weigel

Ignition of a safety match, filmed with an Olympus i-Speed 2 at 1000 fps.
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John Goblirsch, Boris Lemattre, Gary Velasquez

Methanol burning with table salt.
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Fire and Ice.
Boris Lemattre

An ice cube on a candle, augmented with rum.
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Gary Velasquez, Boris Lemattre, John Goblirsch

Methanol with table salt burns on a breezy evening.
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Bailey Leppek

A fIre breather spit out a mist of lamp oil and ignited it with a torch.
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Matthew Feddersen

Gasoline floating on water in a jar burns in a diffusion flame.
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Dominic Di Marco

Water is poured into acetone in a shot glass as the acetone burns.
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Flaming Nemo
Nathan Gust

A spray of flaming vegetable oil.
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Paul Mountford

Natural convection of incense around a cylinder.
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Jonathan Crenshaw

Lucid dreaming inspired this photo of a smoke plume rising from a cigarette.
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Travis Ochsner

The heated plume from burning incense rises and accelerates, transitioning to turbulence.
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Michael Vallejo

A water jet steams on impact with a hot clothes iron.
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Scott Schollenberger

Liedenfrost effect: water film boiling on a hot surface.
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Logan Meyer

A droplet of canola oil creates a crown splash on impact with a canola oil pool.
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Nathan Sheiko

Ice spindles on an automobile.
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Daniel Anson

Water drips off an icicle.
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Stefan Berkower

Condensation droplets on a cold soda can display adsorption, adhesion, cohesion and surface tension.
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Bradley Samuels

Soap film on a windshield in a car wash displays contact line instabilities.
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Andrew Beat

Soft over sharp; a soap bubble over an arrowhead
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Andrew Bornstein, Austin Edwards, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Oobleck on a loudspeaker, color reversed.
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Matthew Phee, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks

Oobleck on a loudspeaker forms crawling fingers.
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Tyler Coffey, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Oobleck on a loudspeaker crawls around.
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Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Steven Hendricks, Matthew Phee

Oobleck and paint submerged in a water tank, lit from below.
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Steven Hendricks, Austin Edwards, Andrew Bornstein, Tyler Coffey, Matthew Phee

Whipped cream is shear-thinning, so is stiff when sitting, but fluid through a nozzle.
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Daniela Molina Piper

A droplet of dish soap reduces surface tension in the center of a bowl of milk and food dye, inducing mixing.
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Kryz Tung

Mouthwash dripped into a scintillation fluid (fluoresces in radiation) causes a precipitate to form.
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Shawn Noland

Composite image of flow over a wedge at 5 different speeds.
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Joshua Bourquin

Flow over a blunt body in a flume, visualized by dye.
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John Berry

Dye on the surface of a bathtub shows no swirl during draining.
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Scott Christian-Dold

An underwater turbulent jet issues from a water balloon.
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Shane Schabow

Milk mixing into beer forms fibrous and pillow shapes.
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Cory Fuhrmeister

Food dye shows vortexes after a knife wake disturbs a surface-tension driven flow in milk.
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Andrew Carter

Vortex shedding off a back-facing step in laminar flow.
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Gregory Kana, Kyle Manhart, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Stage fog vortex ring illuminated by laser sheet.
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Jared Hansford, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Stage fog and vortex rings from a 'Zero Blaster' are illumnated by a sheet of laser light.
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Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell, Andrew Scholbrock

Room air turbulence illuminated by laser sheet.
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Matthew Campbell, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Andrew Scholbrock

Vortex rings of stage fog are illuminated by pulsed laser light sheets.
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Andrew Scholbrock, Kyle Manhart, Gregory Kana, Jared Hansford, Matthew Campbell

Room air turbulence illuminated by laser sheet.
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Grant Meaux

A dense turbulent smoke plume is ejected from a 'Mammoth Smoke' device.
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Brittany Feddersen, Jaewon Kim, Davis Fogerty, Lisa Logel, Justin Simmons

Fog from an ultrasonic nebulizer.
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Davis Fogerty, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Lisa Logel, Justin Simmons

Fog from an ultrasonic nebulizer.
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Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty, Lisa Logel, Justin Simmons

Fog from an ultrasonic nebulizer.
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Lisa Logel, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty, Justin Simmons

Fog from an ultrasonic nebulizer.
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Justin Simmons, Jaewon Kim, Brittany Feddersen, Davis Fogerty, Lisa Logel

Fog from an ultrasonic nebulizer.
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