Investigation of the tangential discontinuities formation in the glycerol under shear load

Abstract

The work is devoted to the study of the formation of tangential discontinuities of glycerol parameters under shear load. The studies were carried out using a modified coaxial cylinder viscometer. The experiment was inspired by the work of Ya. I. Frenkel, in which it was noted that “… liquids, being condensed media, should exhibit effects that are more characteristic of solids than gases …”, while the thermodynamic and kinetic properties should be determined by structural “variables”, traditional for both “liquid” and solid state. These studies will further help in explaining the anomalous momentum transfer regimes caused by the mechanisms of instability that are realized under the conditions of the “decay” of multiple metastable states, usually observed under intense (dynamic and shock-wave) loading in liquids and solids.