A still-photo of one of Fedkiw’s simulations, created with Frank Losasso, Jerry Talton and Nipun Kwatra. Low viscosity liquids like water behave in specific ways. Fedkiw’s work in modeling these liquids has many uses in physics, engineering, movie making and other fields. Credit: Frank Losasso, Jerry Talton, Nipun Kwatra, Ron Fedkiw / Courtesy of Stanford University