Check out this new article on instabilities of dilute wormlike micelle solutions in circular Couette flow! We show that a reentrant (i.e., multivalued) shear stress vs. shear rate curve can promote finger-like instabilities. These ‘fingers’ …

Alex, Daniel (now a professor at University of Houston),  and Mike submitted a poster to the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion.

The Graham group had a great time attending and presenting at the annual AIChE conference in Orlando, Florida!