Links - Misc
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Pictures and Movies
These days you can find pictures and movies at almost every CFD company
or CFD department. Here are a few selected sites that have been around for a
long time and have a lot of nice pictures and movies related to CFD.
- The Colorful Fluid Mixing Gallery
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- Many nice pictures and movies of mixing processes.
- Gallery of Fluid Mechanics
- Parts from an old site by Professor M. S. Cramer. You can still find
some nice pictures of fluid dynamics phenomena in nature here. If you're
interested in fluid dynamics you should definitely check it out.
There are no CFD plots here though.
- Virtual Album of Fluid Motion
- More than 4 GB of pictures and movies from computations using the Featflow
code.
- Gallery of Turbulent Flows, CTR
- Pictures and movies from the Center for Turbulence Research. Includes visualizations
from DNS, LES and RANS simulations of mainly simple research flows.
- ITSC Fluids Movie Archive
- A few animations of classical fluid dynamics problems.
- eFluid Gallery of Flow Images
- Many nice pictures of fluid dynamics phenomena in nature.
- CFD Search on YouTube
- Lots of cool CFD related videos on YouTube!
- Google search for:
CFD pictures,
CFD movies
- You are on your own from here.
Fun
- The Science of Fluid Sims
- A very nice feature by Mike Seymour on fxguide.com about how CFD methods are used in the film and entertainment industry. Includes many nice examples and videos. This is a dream application for a CFD engineer - it doesn't matter if it is correct just a long as it looks cool!
- Tacoma
Narrows Bridge Failure
- On November 7, 1940, the first Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge collapsed
due to wind-induced vibrations. This site gives background information and
a QuickTime move of the catastrophe. YouTube also has several nice movies of collapsing bridges, here are a few examples:
Tacoma Narrows Gallopin Gertie,
Russian Wobbly Bridge.
- Paper Airplanes
- Impress your kids with a paper airplane inspired by Ken Blackburn. Ken
holds the world record for time aloft for paper airplanes and has written
several books on the subject. This is a wonderful site with lots of details
on how to make your paper planes fly better. Fun!
- Recommentations to Succesfully Fail in CFD
- Some fun "advice" written by T. Poinsot at Université de Toulouse.
- Ode
to CFD
- Read and enjoy - you'll get a deeper insight into the nature of CFD.
- Will Wind Tunnels
Replace Computers?
- A science fiction story that might already be a reality. It all goes in
cycles and we just happen to be living in the CFD age. Fun!
- The Wine Snobs Guide To
Flux Functions
- For those of us who both like wine and CFD. Suddenly all connections seem
so clear. Fun!
- Fitted Mesh Story
- A colorful short-story about everyday life inside a high-tech governmental
lab. Read and enjoy.
- A One-Sided View
- Limericks for CFD people :-)
