Cool Qualitative Flow Gadget

For anyone who's got some free time this holiday season, check this sucker out:

2-d Flow simulation

yeah, it's 2-d and qualitative, and there are some obvious drawbacks to that, but it was kind of fun to play around with it. Pretty neat web application that can take your own black/white bitmap image and output some intriguing flow visualization videos.

So, I took the wind tunnel side view image from the 2004 vs 2008 post below and used these settings (which doesn't really match real reynolds number, but does qualitatively match some tuft analysis I've done in the tunnel):



to create this interesting flow visualization:




So, have a go with this online tool and let's see your results! Feel free to share here or over in the forum.


Happy Holidays, everyone!