mNational Committee for Fluid Mechanics Film
https://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html

Based on the from NCFMF. These are machine-generated and fine-tuned simulations.

Eulerian & Lagrangian Description
One unsteady flow shown three ways at once, where streamlines, pathlines and a streakline all disagree.
Low Reynolds Number Flow
A dye blob sheared into a spiral between two cylinders reassembles when the crank is turned back, because creeping flow runs in reverse.
Stratified Flow
A rod jiggled in layered water sends internal waves out along four tilted beams whose angle is fixed by the drive frequency.
Rotating Flows
In a fast-spinning tank a drift swerves around a tall invisible column standing over a tiny floor bump.
Flow Instabilities: Kelvin-Helmholtz
Two-tone GPU particles wind the shear layer into a glowing cat's-eye vortex, the shape of billow clouds.
Surface Tension: Rayleigh-Plateau
A smooth stream necks down and snaps into a train of drops because any ripple longer than its circumference keeps growing.
Waves in Fluids
A wave packet drifts at the group speed while its crests race through at twice that, born at the back and dying at the front.
Vorticity
A hundred thousand particles trace the swirl of two leapfrogging vortex pairs, each darting through the other in turn.
Fundamental Boundary Layers
A wall boundary layer thickens, then peels away into a reverse-flow bubble on the back of a hump unless wall suction holds it on.
Aerodynamic Generation of Sound
Vortices shedding off a rod radiate the Aeolian tone as a dipole, loud above and below and silent along the wind.
Turbulence
Dye folded across every scale by a synthetic turbulent field, with its energy spectrum measured against Kolmogorov's -5/3 slope.
Fluid Dynamics of Drag
A GPU particle stream past a cylinder from clean flow to the drag crisis, with a live Cd-vs-Reynolds curve showing why the drag suddenly drops.
Magnetohydrodynamics
A magnetic field across a liquid-metal duct flattens the flow profile into a plug with paper-thin Hartmann layers at the walls.
Flow Visualization
One flow over a hump shown three ways at once: a smoke streakline, hydrogen-bubble timelines, and wall tufts that flip red at separation.
Fluid Dynamics of Drag II: Streamlining
Three lanes of GPU particle flow past a rod, a strut and a wire, making the wake-width contrast that collapses form drag immediate.
Channel Flow of a Compressible Fluid
A converging-diverging nozzle where lowering the back pressure plants a normal shock in the diverging cone, then blows it out into a diamond jet.
Rarefied Gas Dynamics
A dense molecular gas forms a bow shock on a cylinder; thin the gas out and the molecules fly straight through, leaving only a shadow.
Secondary Flow
The tea-leaf paradox: a weak cross-stream circulation in a stirred cup sweeps the leaves into a neat pile at the centre.
Pressure Fields & Fluid Acceleration
A hundred thousand tracer particles stream past a cylinder, coloured by speed so the streamlines themselves show the pressure field.
Rheological Behavior of Fluids
Newtonian, shear-thinning and Bingham fluids pushed down one channel show blunt profiles and a rigid central plug instead of a clean parabola.
Deformation of Continuous Media
Round fluid blobs deform into spinning ellipses, showing that any flow is translation plus rigid rotation plus pure stretch.
Cavitation
Fast flow over a hydrofoil drops the pressure below vapour pressure, growing a frothy sheet cavity whose shed bubbles implode downstream.