The Couette-Taylor Problem

by Pascal Chossat and Gerard Iooss

Book Overview

1. 1 A paradigm About one hundred years ago, Maurice Couette, a French physicist, de- signed an apparatus consisting of two coaxial cylinders, the space between the cylinders being filled with a viscous fluid and the outer cylinder being rotated at angular velocity O2. The purpose of this experiment was, follow- ing an idea of the Austrian physicist Max Margules, to deduce the viscosity of the fluid from measurements of the torque exerted by the fluid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387941541
• ISBN13: 9780387941547
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"