Simple Hele-Shaw Flow Demo Produces Beautiful Organic Forms

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Simple Hele-Shaw Flow Demo Produces Beautiful Organic Forms

Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool vid from Jessica Rosenkrantz featuring a simple Hele-Shaw cell, which, per Wikipedia, demonstrates “Stokes Flow between two parallel flat plates separated by an infinitesimally small gap.” Further, “[v]arious problems in fluid mechanics can be approximated to Hele-Shaw flows and thus the research of these flows is of importance.”

All of which means very little to me. But I can tell you this: Jessica’s video shore is purty. Give it a watch.

2 thoughts on “Simple Hele-Shaw Flow Demo Produces Beautiful Organic Forms

  1. Anonymous says:

    Of course here that flat plates is very important to make that organic forms.. It looks nice..
    Aluminium Kozijnen

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