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SUMMARY:Instabilities in viscoelastic fluids: a long story - Prof Helen Wi
 lson\, University College London
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CONTACT:Professor Grae Worster
DESCRIPTION:Many real-life fluids are not Newtonian and have to be modelle
 d with something more complex than a single scalar viscosity. In this talk
  we will look specifically at dilute polymer solutions. We'll see some sim
 ple models that capture the essential features of their behaviour\, and th
 en investigate how the properties of these models affect the stability of 
 channel flow.\n\nThe story spans my whole research career so far\, from an
  early theoretical prediction which was later observed in experiments\, to
  a more recent realisation that there is still quite a lot we don't unders
 tand. If time permits I will also discuss the latest place the research ha
 s taken me\, which is neither viscoelastic nor unstable.\n
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