This contribution presents new phenomena regarding the stability of pressure driven flows within annular pipes. The fluid is advected downstream due to an axial pressure gradient but also subjected to centrifugal mechanisms due to the independent rotation of the coaxial cylinders that contain it. Coexistence of upstream and downstream spiral secondary flows is observed in the co-rotating regime...

The stability of the equilibrium configurations of a nematic liquid crystal confined between two coaxial cylinders is analysed when a radial electric field is applied and the flexoelectric effect is taken into account. The threshold for perturbations depending only on the radius r in the cylindrical coordinate system and strong boundary conditions is studied. A new type of orientational transit...

The purpose of this article was to present the solution for critical Taylor number in case motion between rotating coaxial cylinders based on theory stochastic equations continuum laws and equivalence measures random deterministic motions. Analytical solutions are currently special value, as obtained by modern numerical methods require verification. At present, scientific literature, there no m...

We built up an experiment to study liquid-liquid dispersions in a turbulent Taylor-Couette flow, produced between two counterrotating coaxial cylinders, of radii ri = 100mm and ro = 110mm (gap ratio η = ri/ro = 0.909). The useful length is L = 185mm. There is a space of 10mm between the cylinders bottom ends and a free surface on the top. The cylinders rotation rates ωi and ωo can be set indepe...