flow field – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Testing the new particle tracking app “Flow on the Go”

mglessmer — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:27:09 +0000

The new particle tracking app “Flow on the Go” became available for testing on iOS yesterday. And it is SO AWESOME!!! The idea is that particle that are advected in a flow can be used to visualize a flow field (similar to what we did when we were at the 13-m-diameter rotating swimming pool in […]

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Wind field

mglessmer — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:03:09 +0000

Another boundary layer experience last week: On my way from work I stopped to take pictures of flags that were outside my university’s main building and that very nicely visualised the wind field (as flags tend to do). If you just look at the flags, they look weird — they wind field was clearly not changing over […]

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Reading ice on a river as tracer for flow fields

mglessmer — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:07 +0000

For most of my readers it might be pretty obvious what the movement of floating ice says about the flow field “below”, but most “normal” people would probably not even notice that there is something to see. So I want to present a couple of pictures and observations today to help you talk to the people around […]

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Waterfalls

mglessmer — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:45:10 +0000

You saw the waterfall in my post two days ago already, when I talked about continuity. But now let’s take a closer look. Obviously, it’s artificial, but that makes for really pretty symmetric flow patterns:

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