One of the most attractive features of fluid dynamics research is the beauty of the flows generated in the lab and on our computer screens. Below we have collected a handful of picture and movie sites illustrating a wide variety of flows. If we have missed a good one, please feel free to drop us a note at fluids@vt.edu. We will be more than happy to include any appropriate site.

• Professor Smits at Princeton has set up a Picture of the Week page. This contains a large number of pictures with short explainations.
• A NASA Image Site
• This is ITSC's Movie Archive Site which contains a reasonable number of downloadable movies of fluid phenomena, including shock waves, water waves, runup, etc.
• The ITSC site has also provided a Movie Link Page.
• The NASA Dryden site always has a good collection of both pictures and short summaries of aircraft specs and history.
• Peter Steehouwer has a great site filled with aircraft photos. In many cases these illustrate fundamental fluid flows.
• Another spectacular aircraft image site is found at Sky-Flash Aviation site.
• This is an in-flight Schlieren site, compliments of NASA.
• This page contains a few movies and images from the DLR at Göttingen.
• Here is a commercial site (Computational Engineering International) containing a few animations and stills.
• On Tom Praisner's Homepage you can find several pictures of vortex-related flows. Just click on the Flow Pics link. His research page also contains a number of images.
• Greg Miller at the University of Chicago has a large number of mpegs of shock waves in solids.
• Here is a Stanford site primarily dedicated to images of turbulence and separation.
• The Army High Performance Computing Center in U. of Minnisota has a collection of their calculations. Most of these are in the form of mpegs.
• More images and (very large) movies of vorticies and turbulence can be found at this University of Surrey site.
• This site ( associated with the J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Dynamics ) is primarily comprised of movies and animations of free surface waves although some animations of shock waves and convection are available.
• Here is a German site with a number of very nice mpegs of flows, many of which are free surface flows.
• Leon van Dommelen has some nice images of separation, including one showing the effect of vorticies interacting with the boundary layer on a cylinder.
• Here's a University of Buffalo CFD Gallery.
• Very large jpegs and gifs of CFD calculations can be found at this Finnish site.
• Steve Massey, at ODU and NASA Langley, has a large number of images and movies of his delta wing work. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the links to these images.
• Brady Brown, now at Krispin Technologies , has set up a site of animations involving shock wave refraction and diffraction in dense and perfect gases. As with many of these sites, it takes a while to load, so be patient.
• Günter Schnerr at Karlsruhe has placed several images of both experimental and computational results on his department's site. These do take a while to load but are unique enough to justify the wait.
• Some movies and pictures of CFD-generated images can be found at this NASA site.
• Here's a nice picture site of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis).
• A group of space scientists in the University of Michigan have posted this picture site of computational MHD (Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics) applied to planetary and cometary bow shocks.
• This is a site from Oak Ridge National Lab on the visualization of MHD (Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics) instabilities in fusion power generation devices.
• The EPA manages this Image Gallery. You will need to click through quite a few links to get to the final pictures.
• A fellow in the University of Alberta has set up a "Bug Flow" site. In essence this is a set of flow visualizations of flows over insects and their larvae.There are some reasonable references to fluid mechanics as well.