Location: Ulrich Art Museum, Dr. Sam and Jacque Kouri Collection Study Center

Have you ever watched as cream mixes with your coffee? Stared into the flames of a fire? Seen how incense smoke streams upwards smoothly, then curls? Wondered why a candle flame is steady, then suddenly pulsates? Marveled at a thunderhead at sunset? Then you have participated in flow visualization. Literally, flow vis makes the physics of gases and liquids visible. In this talk we'll enjoy the aesthetics of flow visualization: beauty, power, destruction and the just plain weird things fluids can do. At the same time we'll explore the physics of a wide range of fluid dynamics.