Hydrodynamic cavitation in Stokes flow of anisotropic fluids

Cavitation is the formation of vapour bubbles within a liquid and is undesirable in many industrial applications. Here Stiegeret al. show how the anisotropic fluids influence this process in a nematic liquid crystal and find that orientational ordering of molecules can tune the onset of cavitation.

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Main Authors: Tillmann Stieger, Hakam Agha, Martin Schoen, Marco G. Mazza, Anupam Sengupta
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7d833abbabb74c64b1006007dec45816
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