Cell exclusion is the phenomenon whereby the hematocrit and viscosity of blood decrease in areas of high stress. While this is well known in naturally occurring Poiseuille flow in the human body, it has never previously been shown in Couette flow, which occurs in implantable devices including blood pumps. The high-shear stresses that occur in the gap between the boundaries in Couette flow are k...

A comprehensive assessment is made of transient and asymptotic two-dimensional perturbation growth in compressible shear flow using unbounded constant shear and the Couette problem as examples. The unbounded shear flow example captures the essential dynamics of the rapid transient growth processes at high Mach numbers, while excitation by nonmodal mechanisms of nearly neutral modes supported by...

Synovial joints are loaded by weight bearing, stretching, and fluid-driven shear. To simulate in vitro fluid-driven shear, we developed an "oscillating Couette flow mechanical shear loader". Oscillating Couette flow mimics relative motion of articular surfaces; hence, characterizing flow-induced shear by the loader enhances understanding of mechanotransduction in the joint tissue. Here, the ana...

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is thought to play a key role in the formation of stars and black holes by sustaining the turbulence in hydrodynamically stable Keplerian accretion disks. In previous experiments the MRI was observed in a liquid metal Taylor-Couette flow at moderate Reynolds numbers by applying a helical magnetic field. The observation of this helical MRI (HMRI) was inter...

The spinodal decomposition of quenched polymer/solvent and liquid-crystal/solvent mixtures in a miniature Taylor-Couette cell has been simulated by molecular dynamics. Three stacking motifs, each reflecting the geometry and symmetry of the cell, are most abundant among the fully phase separated stationary states. At zero or low angular velocity of the inner cylindrical drum, the two segregated ...

We investigate the effect of viscous dissipation on the thermal transport characteristics of heat and its consequence in terms of the entropy-generation rate in a circular Couette flow. We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid through a narrow annular space between two asymmetrically-heated concentric micro-cylinders where the inner cylinder is rotating at a constant speed. Employing an analyt...

This project work report provides a full solution of simplified Navier Stokes equations for The Incompressible Couette Problem. The well known analytical solution to the problem of incompressible couette is compared with a numerical solution. In that paper, I will provide a full solution with simple C code instead of MatLab or Fortran codes, which are known. For discrete problem formulation, im...

The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is used in a time-dependent manner to simulate threedimensional micro Couette flows. An artificial forcing that mimics the centrifugal force in the Taylor problem has been applied to the flow. The sampled behaviors of the resulting flow, including the averaged properties and disturbances, are studied. The computations have been performed using a p...

The linear stability of viscous compressible plane Couette flow is not well understood even though the stability of incompressible Couette flow has been studied extensively and has been shown to be stable to linear disturbances. In this paper, the viscous linear stability of supersonic Couette flow for a perfect gas governed by Sutherland viscosity law was studied using two global methods to so...

We analyze the stability of a cylindrical Couette flow under the imposition of a weak axial flow in case of a very short cylinder with a narrow annulus gap. We consider an incompressible viscous fluid which is contained in the narrow gap between two concentric short cylinders, where the inner cylinder rotates with constant angular velocity. The caps of the cylinders have narrow tubes conically ...