Lia Cucuzzella Get Wet 2024: Patterns in Near-Boiling Water

For this project, I focused on using lighting beneath water; this brought out the patterns and shapes created by its flow at boiling and near-boiling temperatures. The lens was focused on the glass enclosure, capturing the water flow’s shapes up against the boundary as it approached boiling temperatures (In this shot, 200 degrees F).

This photograph was taken on a Canon T7i, with settings Focal Length 50mm, f/2.2, 1/1250s and ISO 6400.

Project Report: https://www.flowvis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Flow-Vis-Get-Wet-Lia-Cucuzzella-1.pdf

Water droplets coalesce at the center of a heated pan during the Leidenfrost effect, where film boiling insulates the droplet.

Water droplets at the center of a heated pan exhibit the Leidenfrost effect, where film boiling insulates the droplet. Away from the hottest center, droplets evaporate quickly.

Turbulent flow over a 5.5 inch model VW Beetle in a flume.

Flow (from right to left) over an obstacle in a flume simulates some aspects of the slipstream over a semi tractor trailer.

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

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

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

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

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

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