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The Taylor-Couette apparatus consists of a fluid contained between two coaxial, independently rotating cylinders. The experiments involve setting the speeds of rotation of the inner and the outer cylinders and observing the nature of the fluid flow between them. What astonishes observers of the experiment is the beautiful patterns that develop in the fluid flow. In this respect both theoreticians and experimentalists are united in an attempt to explain how these patterns form and why there are so many different types. Since the Taylor-Couette experiment is one of the simplest fluid flow experiments, it is a natural place to try to connect theory with experiment.
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Langford, W.F. (1988). The Taylor—Couette System. In: Singularities and Groups in Bifurcation Theory. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 69. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4574-2_13
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