Gradient of velocity

Adjacent liquid layers slide past each other like playing cards

How colors blend
Motion of the particles of fluid is orderly

How it looks
Displacement of each layer depends on its distance from the moving inner cylinder

Reynolds number dimensionless, just saying
Viscosity: resistance to flow
Density: Amount of mass occupying a space
High velocity generates larger disturbances low velocity for laminar flow
High viscosity characterizes low momentum diffusion
High viscosity + slow rate of rotation orderly flow laminar flow
Velocity = radius of container x angular velocity (90 degree/s)
Critical number that distinguishes turbulent flow and laminar flow: 2040

How can we tell if flow is laminar? (What does viscosity have to do with anything?)
One way we can characterize a fluid flow is using Reynolds number, which measures the ratio of inertial forces
to viscous forces for a given flow. Laminar flow occurs at low Reynolds numbers -- viscous forces are dominant,
and flow occurs in a smooth, constant motion. At high Reynolds numbers, inertial forces dominate, which
produces unstable, chaotic flow that encourages mixing

Fun fact: at small reynolds number

Laminar flow cabinet
RG has it in chem labs!! (collection of h2so4 next to teachers bench at the front)
FUME HOOD!!!!!
Used to exclude contaminants from sensitive processes in science, electronics and medicine