In “Dispersion,” particles spread under the influence of an unseen fluid. Like Roman de Giuli’s work, filmmaker Susi Sie creates macro images that look like ice floes, deserts, and river Keep reading
Tag: particulates
Paris 2024: Clearing the Air
A quartet of mushroom-shaped structures tower nearly 6 meters above the Olympic Village. Known as Aerophiltres, these devices filter particulates out of the air to provide cleaner air for the Keep reading
The Inside of an Evaporating Drop
[original media no longer available] Evaporating droplets may not look like much to the naked eye, but they contain complicated flow patterns. The type of pattern observed depends strongly on Keep reading
Airborne Aerosols
This numerical simulation from NASA Goddard shows the motion of particulates in Earth’s atmosphere between August 2006 and April 2007. These aerosols come from various sources including smoke, soot, dust, and Keep reading