Science and Art Symposium 2000 -

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Résumé :
This book promotes the interdisciplinary work between science and art; in the present volume specifically the interaction of fluid dynamics and video art. It suggests how both disciplines can profit from each other without loss of professionality in either field. Both disciplines are described in their own language. The contributions in fluid mechanics are from internationally well-known scientists, and the topics range from fractal laminar flows in the lung to astrophysical processes. Turbulence, vortex dynamics, bio-fluid dynamics as well as issues in magnetohydromechanics and topological fluid dynamics compete with more than a dozen artworks by known Dutch and Swiss video artists. The catalogue of the exhibition incorporated in the book illustrates how artistic creativity can profit from scientific results, and how scientists can learn from artists how to present their thoughts and ideas.

Sommaire:
SCART-LECTURE I: Scientific computing visualization - a new venue in the arts.- Vortex flows and the perception of movement in still images.- Pairing and acoustics of azimuthally perturbed vortex rings.- Air entrainment by a wavy plate entering a poole of stagnant liquid.- Numerical simulation and manipulation of the Vortex dynamics In a confined flow.- Double-diffusive Christmas tree.- Power of beauty: Streamwise vortices.- SCART-LECTURE II: Interaction between the two cultures: Art & Science.- Vortex packets and the structure of wall turbulence - Extended abstract.- The hidden structure in a round jet.- The interaction between longitudinal vortices in a channel flow visualized through seeding and hydrogen bubble techniques.- Choice of representation modes and color scales for visualization in computational fluid dynamics.- Extracting singularities in turbulent flow with real and complex wavelets.- SCART-LECTURE III: Vortism a basic art.- SCART-LECTURE IV: Gallery of physical phenomena.- The role of color in the optical visualization of flows with variable fluid density.- Direct Navier-Stokes simulations of unsteady vortex breakdown in a swirling jet.- The transition within the subcritical regime of flow over a circular cylinder.- SCART-LECTURE V: Microfluidic system for biological agent detection.- Artificial shark skin on its way to technical application.- SCART-LECTURE VI: Medusoid vortex rings.- Computational anatomy of human lung based on the fluid dynamics.- Paradoxes of fish-like propulsion.- Two-phase flow processes in porous media producing geometric patterns.- SCART-LECTURE VII: Flow patterns in ballet and fluid dynamics.- Postcomputational visualization of baroclinic wave drift.- Art, history, self-organization and coherent structures in fluidmechanics.- An experimental and numerical investigation of the free vibration of an elastic cylinder in a cross-flow.- Elongational behaviour of dilute polymer solutions.- Vision of numerical relativity 1999.- The ordering effect of a horizontal magnetic field on liquid metal natural convective flow and its influence on heat transfer.- Knots and braids on the sun.- Reconnections of elliptical vortex rings.- Vorticity induced by electrostatic forces.- Simulation of flow over two unequal square cylinders.- List of addresses of the participants.- Color Plate Serie IV.- Catalogue of the art exhibition.- Walking on air.- T. Wildner.- Y. Netzhammer.- G. Kousbroek.- E. N. J. Hobijn.- Y. Fontijne.- Z. Leutenegger.- J. Werner.- Color Plate Serie V.- T. Jansen.- M. Frei.- D. Renggli.- R. Signer.- A. Ehrat.- B. Lademann.- N. Gyr.- H. Schmid.- Color Plate Serie VI.