When1: 1973
Who: Harry Swinney [Swinney, Harry]
What: physicist
Where: USA
Detail: He studied conductivity [1973], with Jerry Gollub. He studied phase transitions. Rotating one cylinder inside another causes intervening liquid to flow {Couette-Taylor flow, Swinney}. First, flow streamlines. At faster speed, fluid cylinder separates into layers along cylinder axis, so fluid goes up and down cylinder. At higher frequency, flow is chaotic, with no defined frequencies. Vapor at critical point gives off white glow {opalescence, vapor}.
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