Visualizing Fluid Instabilities

First place, 2019 NCSU Research Image Contest (interactive category)

A web-based, interactive, animated volume rendering showing the formation of a Rayleigh-Taylor instability, which occurs at the interface between two fluids of different densities (colored surface) if the less-dense fluid is accelerated into the more-dense fluid. This instability occurs on Earth during processes as simple as placing water on top of oil, or in Space during processes as complex as driving supernova ejecta into a rapidly decelerating blastwave.