The Honey Spoon Instability

January 2015 - March 2015


We explored the hydodynamic instability of a viscous fluid on a rotating cylinder. Our power law model described the behavior at steady state of a the viscous fluid rotating at low speed on a cylinder. This phenomenon happens for example when you are scooping honey with a spoon. Honey flows down from the spoon and you can "catch" it by rotating the spoon. We then explored some instable behaviors of this hydrodynamic system at higher rotational speeds.

Contributions

Experiments Design
Fluid Mechanics Scaling Laws

Collaborators

Adrien Bos
Augustin Guibaud