Fluid Dynamics Gallery

Thermal convection in a rotating cylinder.

Isotherms at T=+0.15 (red) and T=-0.15 (blue) in a cylinder of height-to-diameter aspect-ratio of 1, viewed in the rotating frame of reference, at Taylor number Ta=9.2x10⁷, Prandtl number σ=5.81, and Rayleigh numbers Ra as indicated.

Ra=1.2x10⁷	Ra=3.0x10⁷

Chaotic advection in an unsteady vortex breakdown flow.

Flow-induced patterning of Langmuir monolayers.

Rotating wave mode in a swirling flow.

Circular waves in a Bodewadt boundary layer.

3D synchronous modes of the cylinder wake.

Periodically driven cavity flow.

Rotating shear flow.

Experiments.

Numerical simulations.

Mode 4
Mode 5
	Azimuthal velocity.	Axial velocity.	Azimuthal vorticity.	Axial velocity.