Thermal Buoyancy Effects in Rotating Non-Isothermal Flows

Effects of Fluid Viscoelasticity in Non-Isothermal Flows

Quantifying non-Newtonian effects in rotating boundary-layer flows

The stability of the boundary-layer on a rotating disk is considered for fluids that adhere to a non-Newtonian governing viscosity relationship. For fluids with shear-rate dependent viscosity the base flow is no longer an exact solution of the Navier–Stokes equations, however, in the limit of large Reynolds number the flow inside the three-dimensional boundary-layer can be determined via a simi...

Quantum non-equilibrium effects in rigidly-rotating thermal states

Based on known analytic results, the thermal expectation value of the stress-energy tensor (SET) operator for the massless Dirac field is analyzed from a hydrodynamic perspective. Key to this analysis is the Landau decomposition of the SET, with the aid of which we find terms which are not present in the ideal SET predicted by kinetic theory. Moreover, the quantum corrections become dominant in...

Experimental detection of turbulent thermal diffusion of aerosols in non-isothermal flows

We studied experimentally a new phenomenon of turbulent thermal diffusion of particles which can cause formation of the large-scale aerosol layers in the vicinity of the atmospheric temperature inversions. This phenomenon was detected experimentally in oscillating grids turbulence in air flow. Three measurement techniques were used to study turbulent thermal diffusion in strongly inhomogeneous ...

Solutal and thermal buoyancy effects in self-powered phosphatase micropumps.

Immobilized enzymes generate net fluid flow when exposed to specific reagents in solution. Thus, they function as self-powered platforms that combine sensing and on-demand fluid pumping. To uncover the mechanism of pumping, we examine the effects of solutal and thermal buoyancy on the behavior of phosphatase-based micropumps, using a series of reactants with known thermodynamic and kinetic para...