Photograph of a cylinder moving through a shallow layer of viscoelastic micellar fluid. At higher cylinder speeds the fluid ceases to flow around the cylinder, and develops tears in its wake. See article 224501 and AIP Physics News Update at
From the article:
Motion of a Viscoelastic Micellar Fluid around a Cylinder: Flow and FractureJoseph R. Gladden and Andrew Belmonte
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 224501 (2007)
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