By Travis Bildahl for Spring 2014 Team Second.
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A thin layer of dyed corn syrup is rippled by additional fresh water flowing over the surface.

A thin layer of dyed corn syrup is rippled by additional fresh water flowing over the surface.
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Two simultaneous instabilities: food dye and corn syrup exhibit a Marangoni instabiltiy, and dyed water injected into the corn syrup show the Saffman-Taylor fingering instability, all in a Hele Shaw cell.
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Air pulled into ferrofluid forms the Saffman-Taylor fingering instability as the plates of a Hele-Shaw cell are separated.
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
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
- Refractive Index Techniques
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test