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Title

A gallery of fluid motion / M. Samimy ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Samimy, M.
• Samimy, M. (Mohammad), 1952-

Description

x, 118 p. : ill. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

The Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society annually sponsors a competition for outstanding images of fluid flow. This work is a selection of the images that have won the competition.

Subject

• Flow visualization
• Fluid dynamics
• Fluid mechanics

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Jets and mixing layers : Laser-induced fluorescence measurements of the composition field in a liquid mixing layer ; Flow studies of a two-dimensional liquid film jet ; Shear instabilities in the near field of coaxial jets ; A bifurcating air jet ; Breaking of rotational symmetry in a swirling jet experiment ; Views of the transverse jet near field ; Dynamics of jet in cross flow ; Vortex motion in an unsteady forced wall jet ; Comparison of transitional free jet and wall jet --^
• Vortices : Periodic axisymmetric vortex breakdown in a cylinder with a rotating end wall ; Flow past an impulsively started cylinder ; Swirling flow in a cylindrical container ; Formation of a tripolar vortex in a rotating fluid ; Vortex structure behind a disk started from rest ; Computed unsteady structure of spiral vortex breakdown on a delta wing ; Aircraft trailing vortices and downwash phenomenon ; Vortex breakdown on a delta wing ; Interaction of two-dimensional wakes ; Vortex dynamics in the wake of a sphere ; Suppression of Kármán vortex shedding ; Colliding dipolar vortices in a stratified fluid ; Asymmetric vortex filaments ; Visualization of "vaporlines" emanating from water droplets --^
• Patterns : Vortex flows paint themselves ; Mixing in regular and chaotic flows ; Mixture's route to uniformity by coalescence ; The generation of two-dimensional vortices by transverse oscillation of a soap film ; Hexagons and spirals in non-Boussinesq convection ; Viscosity effects on the directional solidification of a NH₄Cl solution in a Hele-Shaw cell ; Spiral patterns formed by granular media underneath a rotating fluid: experiment vs. computation ; Patterns between two rotating disks ; Sand ripples in a rotating tank ; The thistle crown ; Mode shapes of a sessile drop in forced vibration ; Naruto: past and present ; Dynamic stall: a holographic animation of compressible low interferograms --^
• Drops and bubbles : The collision of a droplet with a solid surface ; The bifurcation of liquid drops ; Breakup and dispersion of highly stretched droplets in a chaotic flow field ; Ligament mediated drop formation ; Vibration-induced droplet atomization ; Atomization of a planar liquid sheet ; Formation of a net-negative charged liquid spray Explosive boiling of a droplet at the superheat limit ; Water balloon rupture in low-g ; Interactions between bubbles at low Reynolds numbers ; Bursting soap bubble -- Complex fluids : Interface motion in a vibrated granular layer ; Mixing patters for surface dominated granular flows ; Crystallization in a 2D granular fluid ; Granular eruptions: void collapse and jet formation ; Particle segregation in monodisperse sheared suspension ; Simulation of particle laden flows using particle methods ; Resuspension by an impacting sphere ; Elastic instability in elongating fluid filaments.
• Flows with interfaces : Fluid fishbone ; Fluid chains produced by obliquely intersecting viscous jets connected by a thin free liquid film ; Viscous beads on thin vertical fiber ; Front propagation and branching dynamics in surfactant driven spreading ; A note on the nonlinear growth of a gravitationally unstable interface in a Hele-Shaw cell ; Fluid polygons ; Shark-teeth pattern in coating flow inside a horizontally rotating cylinder ; Viscous fingering in miscible liquids under microgravity conditions -- Free surface interaction : Laminar jets can splash! ; Impacting water drops ; Air cavity due to jet disturbance ; Formation of a self-focusing singularity on a fluid surface ; Air entrainment by a plunging jet translating of a free surface ; Atom bomb/water drop ; Hypervelocity explosive-driven metal jet in air ; The effect of the free surface on a round jet --^
• Combustion : Wrinkled laminar flames ; Jet diffusion flame transition to turbulence ; Flame-vortex interactions in a driven diffusion flame ; Bouquet with bifurcating jet diffusion flame ; Flame impingements ; Particle tracking in a laminar premixed flame -- Instability : Interaction of 2D wake and jet plume ; The long and short of vortex pair instability ; Instability of an impulsively accelerated liquid/liquid interface ; Breakdown modes of swirling jets with coflow ; Mushrooms and snakes: a visualization of Richtmyer-Meshkov instability ; Evaporatively driven convection in a draining soap film ; Anomalous Saffman-Taylor fingering ; Flows in the circular Couette system --^
• Transition and turbulence : A new mechanism of oblique wave resonance ; Visualization of different transition mechanisms ; The transition to turbulence in a microscopic fluid flow ; Interferometric skin friction footprint for a tripped boundary layer ; the formation of a spilling breaker ; The onset of two-dimensional grid generated turbulence in flowing soap films ; Coherent structures in thermal turbulence ; The colors of turbulence ; High free-stream turbulence influence on turbine film cooling flows -- Turbulent thermal convection over a rough surface --^
• Compressible flows : Mach wave radiation from a jet at Mach 1.92 ; Sound due to the interaction of shear-layer instability-waves and an oblique shock ; Visualization of a supersonic underexpanded jet by planar Rayleigh scattering ; PLIF flow visualization of a shock-accelerated light gas cylinder ; Shock-induced deformation and mixing of a helium sphere immersed in air ; Converging cylindrical shock wave ; COmbined schlieren and interferometry visualization of blast waves.

ISBN

• 0521827736
• 052153500X (pbk.) :

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