India ink was dropped into a stream of water splashing on a metal plate.

By Gregory Lawson, Logan Mueller, Kenny Wine, John Hebert for Spring 2014 Team First.
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India ink was dropped into a stream of water splashing on a metal plate.

A double exposure showing first a jet of blue water traveling to the right entraining red water from a wine glass below, and second, the wine glass after shattering, releasing more red water.

India ink dropped into water displays the Rayleigh-Taylor umbrella instability.

India ink dropped into water displays the Rayleigh-Taylor umbrella instability.

An upside-down image of green highlighter dropped into water, showing the Rayleigh-Taylor umbrella instability.

An upside-down image of green and highlighter dropped into water, showing the Rayleigh-Taylor umbrella instability.

An object cooled in liquid nitrogen is cold enough to condense dense, falling fog around it.

An object cooled in liquid nitrogen is cold enough to condense fog around it. The fog image was then rotated and mirrored.

Air is entrained in a rolling hydraulic jump as flow (from right to left) recovers from acceleration over an obstacle in a flume.

Air is entrained into streamwise vortices in the wake of a block in a flume.