Turbulence as Art

"I was attracted to it as an almost pure abstraction.  I altered the original rainbow palette
to include more earth and muted tones." -- Jonathan Feldschuh

 
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Painting of turbulent scalar mixing layer
Direct numerical simulation of turbulent scalar mixing layer
Jonathan Feldschuh, DNS Chemical Mixing #2, acrylic on canvas over panel, 36" x 36", 2004
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of Chemical Mixing.  From simulations of de Bruyn Kops and Riley, Phys. Fluids, 10 (9): 2125-2127, 1998.
Reaction zone painted by Jonathan Feldschuh
Reaction zone from direction numerical simulation
Jonathan Feldschuh painting of reaction zone in a reacting scalar mixing layer
Direct numerical simulation of reaction zone in a reacting scalar mixing layer.  From simulations of de Bruyn Kops and Riley, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 46 (4): 547-569, 2003.



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