Best Fluid Motion Pictures Named

[amyrose2712]

Soap Film Ripples

January 28, 2010—Ripples in soap film mimic the flow of air from a hand-held fan in an award-winning image from the American Physical Society's (APS) most recent Gallery of Fluid Motion.

To create the image, a team at the Technical University of Denmark flapped a rigid foil over soap film, creating a breeze that made the film flow into a "beautiful butterfly shape," according to the scientists. (Related pictures: "Best Microscopic-Life Images of 2009 Named.")

Each year the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics sets up the Gallery of Fluid Motion exhibit at its annual meeting. The exhibit displays "stunning graphics and videos from computational or experimental studies showing flow phenomena," according to the APS Web site. A panel of referees then selects the most outstanding entries for their artistic content, originality, and ability to convey information. The winners are published in the journal Physics of Fluids.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/photogalleries/100201-fluid-motion-winners-pictures.html


Very cool pics. Also check out these: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/photogalleries/best-tiny-microscopic-life-pictures/index.html

[rurallib]

1. Thank you so much. Forwarded to my daughter the physics/biology teacher