Aluminum flakes in a pool of silicone oil heated from below displays the Bénard-Marangoni convection instability.

Aluminum flakes in a pool of silicone oil heated from below displays the Bénard-Marangoni convection instability.

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2014, 2014 Team First, Convective Cell, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Surface Tension, z Class & Assignment

By Athena Ross, Vigneshwaran Selvaraju, Amanda Kennedy, Melissa Blackstun for Spring 2014 Team First.
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Aluminum flakes in a pool of silicone oil heated from below displays the Bénard-Marangoni convection instability. Here is a time lapse taken over the period of two minutes.
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Aluminum flakes in a pool of silicone oil heated from below displays the Bénard-Marangoni convection instability. The resemblance to the Sun was achieved with post-processing of color.

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