Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor-Couette Flow (NATO Science Series B: Physics)

These papers are from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor-Couette Flow, held in Columbus, Ohio, May 1991. For 70 years, the apparently simple system of a fluid between two rotating cylinders has fascinated scientists, applied mathematicians and engineers. The papers are divided into six sections: experiment and theory, systems with broken rotational symmetry, turbulence and plane couette flow, instabilities and turbulence in model equations, extensions, and open flows. The hot chaos topics of dimension, bifurcation, instabilities and turbulence all come into play in Taylor-Couette problems. Fifty pages of references. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.