Clifford Chafin

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What is the best explanation for acoustic streaming? If sound waves have no true physical momentum, where does the impulse come from?

I read Lighthill's work and it doesn't seem very convincing in hindsight. Is there better data now or a new explanation?

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How do gases transition from quantum to classical behavior?

Quantum systems introduce angular momentum in very particular ways involving vorticity or irrotational waves near the boundaries. This is in complete contrast with classical gases where internal...

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What evidence is there for the sufficiency of tensor and invariant methods in rheology?

I am familiar with the work of Rivlin in elasticity, Truesdell, Bird, Armstrong, etc. on rheology. However, I know there are other ways to build invariants than tensors and one can have objective...

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