Ashwin Vaidya, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Steady Motion of Symmetric Bodies in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids

Abstract:  There are several well known differences in the behavior of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids, such as the rod-climbing, open-siphon effects etc. We discuss one more recently dicovered example of this difference concerning the terminal orientation of long symmetric bodies in these two kinds of fluids. Some experimental and theoretical work will be presented cocnerning this behavior.