Publications by authors named "R Ezeta"
Emulsions are omnipresent in the food industry, health care, and chemical synthesis. In this Letter the dynamics of metastable oil-water emulsions in highly turbulent (10^{11}≤Ta≤3×10^{13}) Taylor-Couette flow, far from equilibrium, is investigated. By varying the oil-in-water void fraction, catastrophic phase inversion between oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions can be triggered, changing the morphology, including droplet sizes, and rheological properties of the mixture, dramatically.
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- The study investigates how a rotating liquid confined in a system reacts to circumferential jets, leading to the development of secondary flows.
- The flow behavior changes depending on the strength of the jets and the slope of the end cap, with low strengths influenced by the slope and higher strengths primarily affected by jet profile asymmetry.
- This asymmetry, along with the Coriolis force, results in a net radial velocity and generates secondary zonal flow patterns within the liquid.