Optically driven colloidal microscopic Taylor-Couette cell (Conference Presentation)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz ◽  
Pietro Tierno
Keyword(s):  
Couette Cell ◽  
Taylor Couette

Impact of osmotic pressure on the stability of Taylor vortices

2022 ◽  
Vol 933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rouae Ben Dhia ◽  
Nils Tilton ◽  
Denis Martinand
Keyword(s):  
Osmotic Pressure ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Hydrodynamic Instabilities ◽  
Taylor Vortices ◽  
Dynamic Filtration ◽  
Analytical Criterion ◽  
Permeable Cylinders ◽  
Couette Cell ◽  
Taylor Couette ◽  
The Stability

We use linear stability analysis and direct numerical simulations to investigate the coupling between centrifugal instabilities, solute transport and osmotic pressure in a Taylor–Couette configuration that models rotating dynamic filtration devices. The geometry consists of a Taylor–Couette cell with a superimposed radial throughflow of solvent across two semi-permeable cylinders. Both cylinders totally reject the solute, inducing the build-up of a concentration boundary layer. The solute retroacts on the velocity field via the osmotic pressure associated with the concentration differences across the semi-permeable cylinders. Our results show that the presence of osmotic pressure strongly alters the dynamics of the centrifugal instabilities and substantially reduces the critical conditions above which Taylor vortices are observed. It is also found that this enhancement of the hydrodynamic instabilities eventually plateaus as the osmotic pressure is further increased. We propose a mechanism to explain how osmosis and instabilities cooperate and develop an analytical criterion to bound the parameter range for which osmosis fosters the hydrodynamic instabilities.

Ionic strength and polyelectrolyte molecular weight effects on floc formation and growth in Taylor–Couette flows

Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athena E. Metaxas ◽  
Vishal Panwar ◽  
Ruth L. Olson ◽  
Cari S. Dutcher
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Ionic Strength ◽  
Solution Ionic Strength ◽  
Radial Injection ◽  
Couette Cell ◽  
Taylor Couette

A Taylor–Couette cell capable of radial injection was used to study the effects of varying solution ionic strength and polyelectrolyte molecular weight on the polyelectrolyte-driven flocculation of bentonite suspensions.

In situ polymer flocculation and growth in Taylor–Couette flows

Soft Matter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (42) ◽  
pp. 8627-8635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athena Metaxas ◽  
Nikolas Wilkinson ◽  
Ellie Raethke ◽  
Cari S. Dutcher
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Particle ◽  
Hydrodynamic Flow ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Couette Cell ◽  
Taylor Couette ◽  
Polymer Flocculation

Transient, in situ polymer-particle flocculation and growth was studied as a function of hydrodynamic flow state using a modified Taylor–Couette cell.

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