Ordered and Turbulent Patterns in Taylor-Couette Flow

Seldom does a physical system, particularly one as apparently simple as the flow of a Newtonian fluid between concentric rotating cylinders, retain the interest of scientists, applied mathematicians and engineers for very long. Yet, as this volume goes to press it has been nearly 70 years since G. I. Taylor''s outstanding experimental and theoretical study of the linear stability of this flow was ...