title: Novel experimental facility for the study of plane Couette flow.
abstract: An experimental facility for the realization of plane Couette flow is described. In this, the moving wall is a rigid plate propelled through air by the carriage of a towing channel, and the fixed wall is a stationary bench constructed alongside the towing tank. This particular arrangement makes it possible to introduce the important parameter of wall roughness into experimental investigations of this flow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A4, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aydin
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Leutheusser