Leap-Frogging Bubble Rings

YouTube video Leap-Frogging Bubble Rings
posted by: DrGoulu
Added: January 09, 2008
Bubble Rings created by Paul Nylander www.bugman123.com/Physics/Physics.html
Category: Science & Technology
Tags: 3D graphics, physics

More info on Paul Nylander's website: www.bugman123.com/Physics/Physics.html

“Take a good look at God’s wonders - they’ll take your breath away.” Psalm 66:5

Here are some physics simulations and artwork along with some Mathematica code. See also my Engineering page.


Magnetic Field of a Solenoid - new version: POV-Ray 3.6.1, 5/17/06


Leap-Frogging Vortex Rings - Mathematica 4.2 version: 12/31/05; C++ version: 10/22/07


Leap-Frogging Bubble Rings - Mathematica 4.2, POV-Ray 3.6.1, 12/31/05
Here is a pair of leap-frogging bubble rings. You can also see this image here on Andrew Burbanks' Dynamical Systems’ Picture Gallery.

Links
My Educational Project - some basic potential flows using Matlab and Mathematica
Vortex Movies - by Tee Tai Lim, I especially like the movies of leap-frogging and vortex ring collisions
Bubble Ring Videos - blown by human, whale, dolphins. This is fun... try it some time!
Leap-Frogging Bubble Rings - blown by scuba diver
Bubble Rings - by David Whiteis
Vortex rings blown out by Mt. Etna - same as a smoker puffing out an “O” ring
Nuclear Bombs - mushroom clouds are giant vortex rings
Birth of the Jellyfish - nice animation by Kerry Mitchell
Smoke Ring - giant vortex ring at the Miramar Air Show
Zero Blaster - fun toys that create fog vortex rings
Ideal Flow Machine - Java applet by William Devenport
Inviscid Flows - paper on incompressible, irrotational flows by Paul Hammerton
(more, much more, on website)

More about Paul Nylander: http://virtualmathmuseum.org/mathart/ArtGalleryNylander/Nylanderindex.html