The effects of fluid inertia and equilibrium shear rate on a normal field, surface-coupled electrohydrodynamic instability in polar geometry are described. Instability growth is retarded and takes on a complex (propagating) part to degrees dependent upon the ratio of viscous diffusion time to electroviscous time and the product of rotation rate and viscous diffusion time. Implications relate directly to an electrically augmented mechanical shear mixing device and tradeoffs between mixing quality and material processing rate.
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