Fluid Dynamics

Fluid dynamics is the branch of physics that explores how liquids and gases move, interact with surfaces, and respond to external forces. It’s a fundamental field that underpins innovations in aerospace engineering, biomechanics, environmental science, and industrial design, helping researchers and engineers analyze flow behavior, optimize performance, and solve complex real-world problems involving fluid motion.

Chronos High-Speed Cameras allow for:

High FPS & Resolution Video Capture
Slow-motion Analysis
Easy to Use & Budget Friendly
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Droplet Impact Research Using Chronos 4K12
Helping researchers visualize and analyze droplet fluid dynamics to explore flow behavior and surface tension effects.
4K Res @ 1006 FPS, 10-bit, Monochrome Sensor
More video examples below.

Why High-Speed Imaging Matters

Capture Rapid Movements

High-speed imaging makes fluid dynamics visible by capturing rapid events like droplet formation, turbulence, and shock waves in microseconds.

Research Advancement

This allows researchers to analyze flow behavior with unmatched precision, driving innovation in aerospace, automotive, medical, and industrial applications.

Key Use-Cases

Measure Hydrodynamic stability +

Capturing detailed fluid motion, helping analyze flow patterns and predict instabilities in engineering and environmental systems.

Studying Droplet and Spray Behavior +

Analyzing droplet formation, breakup, and impact in applications like fuel injection and medical sprays.

Analyzing Jet and Wake Dynamics +

To examine jet propulsion, wakes, and vortex formation in aerospace and marine engineering.

Optimizing Microfluidic Devices +

Monitoring fluid behavior in lab-on-chip and biomedical devices with precision.

Biofluid mechanics +

Enabling precise analysis of blood flow, air movement, and other biological fluids to study cardiovascular function, respiratory mechanics, and medical device performance.

Magnetohydrodynamics +

Capturing rapid fluid and magnetic field interactions, enabling detailed analysis of plasma behavior, electromagnetic flows, and energy transfer processes.

Measuring Cavitation Effects +

Investigating bubble formation and collapse in pumps, propellers, and hydraulic systems.

Schlieren Imaging +

Capturing ultra-fast fluid density changes to visualize and analyze shockwaves, turbulence, and airflow in slow motion.

Real-world Fluid Dynamics Examples

YouTube video

Cavitation Bubbles

The rapid formation, growth, and collapse of cavitation bubbles under changing pressures, helping visualize and study pressure-driven fluid behavior.

Camera: Chronos 4K12 (Monochrome)

Res x FPS: 2048x256 @ 11729 FPS

Shot by: Kron Technologies Team

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Ice Nucleation

UBC researchers capture the moment water freezes at high speed to visualize ice nucleation and study key processes in atmospheric and physical chemistry.

Camera: Chronos 1.4

Res x FPS: 1024x768 @ 2000 FPS

Shot by: Paul Beiber

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Water Rocket Fluid Dynamics

Slow-motion footage reveals the fluid dynamics of a water rocket as pressure builds and releases, showing how different pressure levels affect water flow and jet behavior.

Camera: Chronos 2.1-HD

Res x FPS: 12,684 FPS

Shot by: Balsa Engineering

What Our Users Say

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Chronos cameras are an exceptional value for my research that focuses on investigating ice formation in cloud droplets.

Paul Bieber
PHD
University of British Columbia

  • Chronos in Publications
  • Research Papers & References
  • Case Studies
  • Blogs
    1. Castorrini, A., Gentile, S., Geraldi, E., & Bonfiglioli, A. (2023). Investigations on offshore wind turbine inflow modelling using numerical weather prediction coupled with local-scale computational fluid dynamics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 171, Article 113008. 
    2. Lohse, D. (2022). Fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, 349–382.
    3. Cheng, X., Sun, T.P. and Gordillo, L., 2022. Drop impact dynamics: Impact force and stress distributions. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, pp.57-81.
    4. Bourouiba, L., 2021. The fluid dynamics of disease transmission. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 53, pp.473-508.
    5. Josserand, C., & Thoroddsen, S. T. (2016). Drop impact on a solid surface. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 48(1), 365–391. 
    6. Pozrikidis, C. (2016). Fluid dynamics: Theory, computation, and numerical simulation (3rd ed.). Springer. https://www.amazon.ca/Fluid-Dynamics-Computation-Numerical-Simulation/dp/1489979905
    7. Pinto, R. N., Afzal, A., D’Souza, L. V., Ansari, Z., & Mohammed Samee, A. D. (2016). Computational fluid dynamics in turbomachinery: A review of state of the art. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 24(3), 467–479. 
    8. Anderson, D., Tannehill, J.C. and Pletcher, R.H., 2016. Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Taylor & Francis.
    9. Ren, Y., Dong, H., Deng, X., & Tobalske, B. (2015, November 22–24). Turning on a dime – asymmetric vortex formation in hummingbird maneuvering flight [Video entry V0088]. In Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. 
    10. Joung, Y. S., & Buie, C. R. (2015). Aerosol generation by raindrop impact on soil. Nature Communications, 6, 6083. 
    11. Chow, C.-Y. (2011). An introduction to computational fluid mechanics by example (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons. 
    12. Yarin, A. L. (2006). Drop impact dynamics: Splashing, spreading, receding, bouncing. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 38, 159‑192. 
    13. Yoganathan, A. P., He, Z., & Jones, S. C. (2004). Fluid mechanics of heart valves. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 6, 331‑362.
    14. Xia, B., & Sun, D.-W. (2002). Applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the food industry: A review. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 34(1), 5–24. 
    15. Gawl & Hoolihan, D. (2001). Aerodynamics of high-speed trains. Retrieved from https://by.genie.uottawa.ca/~mcg3341/AerodynamicsOfHighSpeedTrains.pdf
    16. Tieszen, S.R., 2001. On the fluid mechanics of fires. Annual review of fluid mechanics, 33(1), pp.67-92.
    17. Ivanov, M. S. (1998). Computational hypersonic rarefied flows. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 30(1), 469-505. 
    18. Versteeg, H.K. and Malalasekera, W., 1995. Computational fluid dynamics. The finite volume method, pp.1-26.
    19. Boris, J. P. (1989). New directions in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 21, 387–417. 
    20. Worthington, A.M., 1877. XXVIII. On the forms assumed by drops of liquids falling vertically on a horizontal plate. Proceedings of the royal society of London, 25(171-178), pp.261-272.
    21. Worthington, A. M. (1895). The splash of a drop: Being the reprint of a discourse delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, May 18, 1894. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Splash_of_a_Drop.html?id=RUy4AAAAIAAJ

 

Chronos in Publications
  1. Tsynkov, M., Chang, I., Khoudary, A., & Greenwolfe, M. (2025). Bouncing droplets of water. Communications on Analysis and Computation, 6, 19–31. 
  2. Liu, T., Chen, T., Salazar, D. M., & Miozzi, M. (2022). Skin friction and surface optical flow in viscous flows. Physics of Fluids, 34(6), Article 062244.
  3. Luberto, L., & De Payrebrune, K. M. (2021). Examination of laminar Couette flow with obstacles by a low-cost particle image velocimetry setup. Physics of Fluids, 33(3), 033603
  4. Ramlee, N. A., Ahmad, N. A., Baharudin, Z. A., & Mohamed, A. R. (2020). High-speed video observations on fork lightning events in Malaysia. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 19(3), 1620–1625.
Research Papers & References
    1. Castorrini, A., Gentile, S., Geraldi, E., & Bonfiglioli, A. (2023). Investigations on offshore wind turbine inflow modelling using numerical weather prediction coupled with local-scale computational fluid dynamics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 171, Article 113008. 
    2. Lohse, D. (2022). Fundamental fluid dynamics challenges in inkjet printing. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, 349–382.
    3. Cheng, X., Sun, T.P. and Gordillo, L., 2022. Drop impact dynamics: Impact force and stress distributions. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 54, pp.57-81.
    4. Bourouiba, L., 2021. The fluid dynamics of disease transmission. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 53, pp.473-508.
    5. Josserand, C., & Thoroddsen, S. T. (2016). Drop impact on a solid surface. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 48(1), 365–391. 
    6. Pozrikidis, C. (2016). Fluid dynamics: Theory, computation, and numerical simulation (3rd ed.). Springer. https://www.amazon.ca/Fluid-Dynamics-Computation-Numerical-Simulation/dp/1489979905
    7. Pinto, R. N., Afzal, A., D’Souza, L. V., Ansari, Z., & Mohammed Samee, A. D. (2016). Computational fluid dynamics in turbomachinery: A review of state of the art. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 24(3), 467–479. 
    8. Anderson, D., Tannehill, J.C. and Pletcher, R.H., 2016. Computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Taylor & Francis.
    9. Ren, Y., Dong, H., Deng, X., & Tobalske, B. (2015, November 22–24). Turning on a dime – asymmetric vortex formation in hummingbird maneuvering flight [Video entry V0088]. In Proceedings of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics. 
    10. Joung, Y. S., & Buie, C. R. (2015). Aerosol generation by raindrop impact on soil. Nature Communications, 6, 6083. 
    11. Chow, C.-Y. (2011). An introduction to computational fluid mechanics by example (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons. 
    12. Yarin, A. L. (2006). Drop impact dynamics: Splashing, spreading, receding, bouncing. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 38, 159‑192. 
    13. Yoganathan, A. P., He, Z., & Jones, S. C. (2004). Fluid mechanics of heart valves. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 6, 331‑362.
    14. Xia, B., & Sun, D.-W. (2002). Applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the food industry: A review. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 34(1), 5–24. 
    15. Gawl & Hoolihan, D. (2001). Aerodynamics of high-speed trains. Retrieved from https://by.genie.uottawa.ca/~mcg3341/AerodynamicsOfHighSpeedTrains.pdf
    16. Tieszen, S.R., 2001. On the fluid mechanics of fires. Annual review of fluid mechanics, 33(1), pp.67-92.
    17. Ivanov, M. S. (1998). Computational hypersonic rarefied flows. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 30(1), 469-505. 
    18. Versteeg, H.K. and Malalasekera, W., 1995. Computational fluid dynamics. The finite volume method, pp.1-26.
    19. Boris, J. P. (1989). New directions in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 21, 387–417. 
    20. Worthington, A.M., 1877. XXVIII. On the forms assumed by drops of liquids falling vertically on a horizontal plate. Proceedings of the royal society of London, 25(171-178), pp.261-272.
    21. Worthington, A. M. (1895). The splash of a drop: Being the reprint of a discourse delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, May 18, 1894. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Splash_of_a_Drop.html?id=RUy4AAAAIAAJ

 

Case Studies
  1. Bouncing Droplets of Water - Fluid Dynamics with High-Speed
Blogs
  1. Enhance Droplet Impact Research with High Speed Cameras
  2. What is Computational Fluid Dynamics
  3. Schlieren with Chronos High-Speed Cameras
  4. Why you should use High-Speed Cameras for Visualizing Fluid Mechanics

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