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A purely elastic transition in Taylor-Couette flow

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Experimental evidence of a non-inertial, cellular instability in the Taylor-Couette flow of a viscoelastic fluid is presented. A linear stability analysis for an Oldroyd-B fluid, which is successful in describing many features of the experimental fluid, predicts the critical Deborah number,De c , at which the instability is observed. The dependence ofDe c on the value of the dimensionless gap between the cylinders is also determined.

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  1. AT & T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Avenue, 07974, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA

    S. J. Muller, R. G. Larson & E. S. G. Shaqfeh

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This paper is dedicated to Professor Hanswalter Giesekus on the occasion of his retirement as Editor of Rheologica Acta.

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Muller, S.J., Larson, R.G. & Shaqfeh, E.S.G. A purely elastic transition in Taylor-Couette flow. Rheol Acta 28, 499–503 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01332920

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