Fluid Mechanics Art

Spring 2025
Team: Kayla Blalack, Julia Bedell, Natali Chung, Preston Rossi, Anna Steffen

Visualizing fluid phenomena in beautiful ways under the guidance of Professor Roberto Zenit (Brown University).


High-Speed Droplet Photography

“Leaf Casualty”
leaves, chlorophyll, water
“Voyager” 
gold pigment, sunflower oil, water
“Where the Ships Go” 
dish soap, food coloring, water
“Prince”
dish soap, food coloring, water

See Technical Work

I calculated the Reynolds number of each droplet to predict splash performance.




Vortex Ring Photography

“Mini Nightmare”
"Mini Beethoven"

See Technical Work

I tracked the oscillation of smoke rings produced by an elliptical opening to determine the relationships between oscillation period, exit velocity, and ellipse dimensions.  

Clockwise: Vortex Oscillations, Results, Curve fitting to extract oscillation period, Video analysis

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