Movie S1.

Transition from pool fire to yellow and blue whirls with fixed initial fuel (heptane) layer. This representative movie shows the transition from a pool fire to a blue whirl and the evolution of the blue whirl during liquid hydrocarbon fuel burning over water.

From fire whirls to blue whirls and combustion with reduced pollution

Huahua Xiao, Michael J. Gollner, and Elaine S. Oran

PNAS. 2016. 113:9457-9462 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605860113