SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR Monday, November 19, 2012 at 15:00 Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science

We report the results of experiments in swirling flow of water and water-sucrose polymer solutions, where Re and Wi, which characterizes the degree of polymer stretching, as well as polymer concentration φ are varied independently. Normalized average torque Γ