Monica Luebke Fall Semester 2023 Team SecondOct 9, 2023Monica Luebke3 Comments2023, 2023 Team Second, Rheoscopic Fluid, Vortexes
A ‘bathtub drain vortex’ forms when two water bottles are connected vertically. The surface of the vortex is visualized by red lamp oil.May 22, 2015FlowVis@CU02015, 2015 Team First, Bathtub Drain, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Marked Area, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Vortex Side View, Vortexes, z Class & Assignment
A von Karman vortex street forms in the wake of a cylinder in shallow channel flow, visualized with a rheoscopic fluid (Pearl Swirl).Nov 14, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team Third, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Spiral Vortex View, Vortexes, Wakes, Jets, Shear, z Class & Assignment
Rheoscopic fluid (Pearl Swirl) shows turbulent boundary layers in shallow channel flow.Nov 13, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team Third, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Mixing, Rheoscopic Fluid, Turbulence, Wakes, Jets, Shear, z Class & Assignment
As silver bottle wax melts in a crock pot, its optical characteristics change, allowing motion in the wax to be seen, illustrating non-diffusive mixing.Nov 12, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team Third, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Mixing, Nondiffusive, Rheoscopic Fluid, z Class & Assignment
Boundary layer flow over several immersed bodies is seen using rheoscopic fluid in a small flume.Oct 30, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team Second, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Videos, Wakes, Jets, Shear, z Class & Assignment
Changing the angle of attack of an airfoil changes the attachment of the boundary layer, here visualized by rheoscopic fluid (fish scales) in a water flume.Oct 29, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team Second, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Videos, Wakes, Jets, Shear, z Class & Assignment
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.May 23, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team First, Convective Cell, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Surface Tension, z Class & Assignment
Aluminum flakes in a pool of silicone oil heated from below displays the Bénard-Marangoni convection instability.May 22, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team First, Convective Cell, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Images, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Surface Tension, z Class & Assignment
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.May 21, 2014FlowVis@CU02014, 2014 Team First, Convective Cell, Flow Categories, Flow Vis Techniques, Media, Rheoscopic Fluid, Surface Tension, Time Lapse, Videos, z Class & Assignment
