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First Utah Seaperch Competition Success

Last week the SplashLab organized the first-ever Seaperch competition in the state of Utah. Although, it was the first competition of its kind in the state, over 200 middle and elementary school-age students participated. Throughout the year dozens of volunteers traveled to these various schools to teach the students about physics and engineering. These students [...]

March 20th, 2013|Media|

SAPIV Article Published in the Journal of Visual Experiments

Last week an article from our lab featuring a detailed overview of Synthetic Aperture Particle Image Velocimetry was published in the Journal of Visual Experiments. You can watch the video and read the article on the JOVE website HERE. If you would like to know more about Synthetic Aperture PIV, visit our SAPIV webstie at www.3dsaimaging.com [...]

March 13th, 2013|Media|

Research Update: New Sloshing Video

We just added a new sloshing dynamics video on YouTube. We've added it to our Research section, but if you don't want to make three more clicks, you can make only one click and watch it below.

January 10th, 2013|Media|

New Video: How to Tie a Bowtie with Dr. T.T. Truscott

Dr. Truscott is well known for his tasteful collection of non-pretentious bowties. In this video he shares his secret, so that you too can rock the bowtie.

January 10th, 2013|Media|

New Video: Guns Being Shot at High Speed

Hey look at this! Jesse and Jon made a video of guns being shot at high speed. They used a Schlieren process to visualize pressure gradients in the air.

January 8th, 2013|Media|

Splash Lab Christmas

The Splash Lab was featured on the BYU homepage, KSL, Deseret News, grooveyglue and many more. As you can see from the video, that we made good use of the color high speed video camera (Thanks to Itronx and Photron) and had a lot of fun. From all of us here at the Splash Lab we wish [...]

December 17th, 2012|Media|

2012 APS Poster Winner

One of our posters won the poster competition at the 2012 American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Conference this past week. You can check it out below:

November 29th, 2012|Media|

Dry Ice in Slow Motion

  We had some left-over dry ice from our Halloween celebrations, so we decided to take some photos of dry ice sublimating underwater. Check out these photos, and this YouTube video!  

November 13th, 2012|Media|

APS 2012 Video Submissions Complete!

We've submitted two videos to APS this year, but since most of you won't be going to APS, we've decided to share them on our website as a sneak peak. Enjoy these little morsels of  fluid dynamics.

October 16th, 2012|Media|

Splash Lab Featured in the News

Over the past month the Splash Lab has been featured in the Salt Lake Tribune and The Daily Universe! The Daily Universe article pretty much sums up what we do here at the Splash Lab. The Salt Lake Tribune article highlights a few of the things going on in our lab and tells a little about [...]

September 30th, 2012|Media|