Fun Things...

3D Printing for outreach, teaching, and research

Volcups

Personal baking soda and vinegar volcanoes designed to fit into disposal party cups for demonstrating eruptive behavior during outreach events.

Mount St. Helens

Model of Mount St. Helens for both pre and post May 1980 eruption.

Custom laboratory equipment

LED ring light holder designed for illuminating samples in the High Temperature Conical Nozle Levitation Furnace (HT-CNLF).

Schlieren photography

The effects of convective heat loss on the cooling of lavas is poorly quantified. Using a combination of FLIR and schlieren imagery, we can measure the effects and mode of convective heat loss for differet lava samples.

Thermal conductivity of chocolate chip cookies

A COVID-19 quarantine activity where I used a FLIR infrared thermal camera to estimate the thermal conductivity of some chocolate chip cookies.

Cp ~1900 J/kg/C
⍴ ~560 kg/m^3
⍺ ~1.81× 10^−7 m^2/s
k ~0.192 W/m/C

Curious to see if longer cycles existed in my "energy level" as determined by my Garmin Body Battery.

Discrete Fourier-transform (DFT) of Garmin Body Battery