Flow Instabilities in Complex Fluids

Prof Suzanne Fielding (Durham University) Warwick Fluid Dynamics Research Centre seminars 17 January 2018 2:00pm Room A401, School of Engineering Following a pedagogical introduction to complex fluids and rheology (the study of deformation and flow), I will outline work concerning the onset of flow instabilities in these fluids, with a particular focus on the widely observed free surface instability of edge fracture in shear flow.