Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story

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• Helen Wilson, UCL
• Thursday 12 May 2016, 11:30-12:30
• Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

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In viscoelastic fluids, there is potential for instability mechanisms that persist even at negligibly low inertia: purely elastic instabilities. Some of these are well understood – including long-wave interfacial instabilities, and curved-streamline instabilities. However, some such instabilities are either predicted theoretically and never seen in experiments, or cause unexplained trouble in experiments.

I will present my experience with an instability that was an unfulfilled theoretical prediction for over a decade before being seen in experiment.

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