Published: Feb. 16, 2007
Event Description:

Jean Hertzberg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder

Beautiful physics from ordinary fluids

Household fluids are capable of illustrating sublime physics, using very simple setups. Students in engineering and fine arts, enrolled in a course on flow visualization at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, have employed common fluids from food coloring dyes to gasoline in an effort to create images of fluid physics that have impact and aesthetic appeal. Their images reveal a range of physics from the well-known to the obscure. Students were particularly interested in buoyancy, surface tension, and combustion.

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1111 Engineering DR 
Boulder, CO 
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Name: Ian Cunningham
Phone: 303-492-4668
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