OBSERVATION ROUTE / FIELD

Fields in Motion

For watching invisible forces become trails, currents, wakes, waves, and pressure.

FIELD

WHY TAKE THIS ROUTE

START

Follow this theme across the chambers. Choose this route when you want a field to push back: particles follow vector flows, gravity curves paths, vortices stir a surface, bodies make wakes, magnets pull lines, waves interfere, ink plumes sink, chemistry grows patterns, and lightning finds a path.

WHAT THIS ROUTE IS NOT

Use this as a visual route. These are tactile field models, not engineering solvers or measurement instruments.

FLOW LABS

Choose the flow experiment

FLOW RESISTANCE CHAMBER

Flow Tank Lab

Model: A visual approximation of flow around a tank body, not a CFD solver.
What you change: Body shape, medium, and display mode.
What you watch: Dye, particles, and wake-like motion.

OBSTACLE FLOW LAB

Obstacle Flow Lab

Model: An editable 2D solid-mask grid, not formal CFD or a Karman-only model.
What you change: Place, move, draw, and clear obstacles.
What you watch: The computed speed field and diagnostics.

KARMAN VORTEX TANK

Karman Vortex Tank

Model: A D2Q9 LBM/BGK cylinder wake. Observation runs keep the cylinder fixed; this is not an arbitrary-shape LAB.
What you change: Cylinder position while paused, preset, and view.
What you watch: Computed vorticity, sign alternation, and density drift.

CFD SOLVER LAB

CFD Solver Lab

Model: A simplified pressure-projection method, not CFD for engineering design.
What you change: Solid geometry, viscosity, iterations, and outlet.
What you watch: Pressure, divergence, and residual.

ROUTE LABS

CHAMBERS ON THIS ROUTE

STOCHASTIC / ESCAPE / KRAMERS ESCAPE OBSERVATORY

Kramers Escape Observatory

What to watch: Watch thermal fluctuations carry independent paths to a barrier top. Compare survival, first-arrival times, and a continuum reference.
Lab signal: Watch thermal fluctuations carry independent paths to a barrier top. Compare survival, first-arrival times, and a continuum reference.

OPTICS / DIFFRACTION / FRESNEL DIFFRACTION OBSERVATORY

Fresnel Diffraction Observatory

What to watch: Change a slit, wavelength, and screen distance. Observe near-field fringes becoming a far-field diffraction pattern.
Lab signal: Change a slit, wavelength, and screen distance. Observe near-field fringes becoming a far-field diffraction pattern.

QUANTUM / TUNNELING / QUANTUM TUNNELING OBSERVATORY

Quantum Tunneling Observatory

What to watch: Change the barrier height and width, then compare transmitted and reflected probability flux.
Lab signal: Change a finite barrier and observe the connected quantum wave, transmitted flux, and reflected flux in stationary scattering.

FIELD / VECTOR FIELD ROOM

Flow Field Painter

What to watch: Release particles into a rule-driven vector field and follow the streamlines.
Lab signal: Choose a flow rule and release particles through spirals, streams, and attractors.

ORBIT / ORBIT GRAVITY OBSERVATORY

Gravity Slingshot

What to watch: Adjust mass and speed until paths fall, escape, or whip around gravity wells.
Lab signal: Adjust mass and speed, then watch probes fall, escape, or whip around gravity wells.

VORTEX / VORTEX DYNAMICS CHAMBER

Vortex Flow Mixer

What to watch: Add vortices, reverse spin, and watch trails twist into turbulent flow.
Lab signal: Add vortices, reverse spin, and watch particles twist into trails, pressure zones, and turbulent flow.

RESISTANCE / FLOW RESISTANCE CHAMBER

Flow Tank Lab

What to watch: Change shape, medium, speed, and angle to watch dye trails and wake patterns gather in a flow tank.
Lab signal: Change the shape, flow, and medium, then watch dye, particles, and wake patterns gather around the body.

FLOW / OBSTACLE FLOW LAB

Obstacle Flow Lab

What to watch: Place and move solid obstacles on a 2D grid, then compare the computed speed field and diagnostics.
Lab signal: Place, move, and draw solid obstacles on a 2D grid, then watch the computed speed field and diagnostics respond.

FLOW / KARMAN VORTEX TANK

Karman Vortex Tank

What to watch: Run a fixed-cylinder D2Q9 LBM wake and watch computed vorticity sign alternation emerge over time.
Lab signal: Run a fixed-cylinder D2Q9 LBM wake experiment and read computed speed, vorticity, density drift, and sign alternation metrics.

FLOW / CFD SOLVER LAB

CFD Solver Lab

What to watch: Step a projection-method grid solver and compare pressure, divergence, residual, outlet, and solid-mask diagnostics.
Lab signal: Step a browser projection-method grid solver and inspect velocity, pressure proxy, divergence, residual, boundary, and solid-mask diagnostics.

MAGNETIC / MAGNETIC FIELD CHAMBER

Magnetic Field Sandbox

What to watch: Move poles and watch lines, particles, and polarity settle into a field.
Lab signal: Place poles and watch field lines and iron dust swing into alignment.

INTERFERENCE / WAVE INTERFERENCE BASIN

Wave Interference Basin

What to watch: Place wave sources and compare heights, nodes, phase, and basin echoes.
Lab signal: Add wave sources and watch nodes, echoes, and interference bands spread across the basin.

INK / INK DIFFUSION CHAMBER

Ink Plume Tank

What to watch: Drop ink into a tank and watch plumes sink, curl, spread, and fade.
Lab signal: Drop ink into water and watch plumes sink, curl, spread, and fade.

PROBABILITY / DIFFUSION / RANDOM WALK DIFFUSION FIELD

Random Walk Diffusion Field

What to watch: Release independent walkers from one origin and watch an unbiased cloud spread with the square root of time.
Lab signal: Release independent walkers from one origin and watch unbiased steps form a spreading cloud whose radius follows diffusion.

REACTION / REACTION DIFFUSION CHAMBER

Pattern Chemistry Lab

What to watch: Tune pattern chemistry until spots, stripes, and cellular bands appear.
Lab signal: Adjust feed and kill rates to grow spots, stripes, and cells.

DISCHARGE / DISCHARGE DYNAMICS CHAMBER

Lightning Generator

What to watch: Raise voltage, place obstacles, and watch a branching route search for ground.
Lab signal: Raise voltage, place obstacles, and watch lightning find ground.

LIGHT / TRANSPORT / RADIANCE CASCADE LIGHT TRANSPORT FIELD

Radiance Cascade Light Transport Field

What to watch: Move one light source around fixed occluders and inspect hierarchical ray intervals, visible coverage, and sampling error.
Lab signal: Move one light source around fixed occluders and inspect hierarchical ray intervals, visible coverage, and sampling error in a deterministic 2D field.

FLOW / ADVECTION / VOLUMETRIC ADVECTION FIELD

Volumetric Advection Field

What to watch: Advect a seeded density field and compare mass balance, boundary flux, and transport traces as it moves.
Lab signal: Follow a seeded density field through a velocity model and inspect advection, diffusion, flux, vorticity, and dissipation as the field moves.

WAVE / DISPERSION / SPECTRAL WAVE SURFACE FIELD

Spectral Wave Surface Field

What to watch: Combine k-ω components and follow a wave packet as dispersion separates phase and group velocity.
Lab signal: Combine spectral components on a surface and observe how wavenumber, phase, dispersion, and group velocity shape a moving wave packet.

FIELD / EIKONAL WAVEFRONT / EIKONAL GEODESIC WAVEFRONT OBSERVATORY

Eikonal Geodesic Wavefront Observatory

What to watch: Set a positive speed field, place source and target, and watch arrival-time fronts and least-cost paths bend.
Lab signal: Observe arrival time, wavefronts, and fastest paths in a positive speed field with a deterministic eight-neighbour eikonal graph.

WAVE / NONLINEAR DISPERSION / SOLITON SCATTERING FIELD

Soliton Scattering Field

What to watch: Launch exact KdV pulses and compare collision phase shifts, conserved integrals, and the finite-difference residual.
Lab signal: Observe exact KdV single and two-soliton profiles: amplitude-speed coupling, collision phase shifts, conserved integrals, and a finite-difference PDE residual.

PARTICLE / TRACK VISIBILITY / CLOUD CHAMBER TRACK OBSERVATORY

Cloud Chamber Track Observatory

What to watch: Set particle and chamber conditions, then run seeded paths and compare the fraction that becomes visible.
Lab signal: Observe a seeded ensemble of charged-particle candidates and how supersaturation and cooling select a visible track fraction.

FIELD / PHOTOELASTIC STRESS / PHOTOELASTIC STRESS OBSERVATORY

Photoelastic Stress Observatory

What to watch: Load a sample, move the load point, rotate the polarizers, and compare relative stress-difference fringes.
Lab signal: Observe a deterministic 2D photoelastic surrogate: load a sample, rotate the polarizers, and read relative principal-stress difference patterns.

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