Purely-elastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence in microfluidic cross-slot devices
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DOI: 10.1039/c7sm01106g
Abstract: Strong extensional flows of viscoelastic fluids generate purely-elastic instabilities and elastic turbulence at high Weissenberg numbers. read more here.
Keywords: purely elastic; instabilities elastic; flow instabilities; elastic flow ... See more keywords
Scaling purely elastic instability of strongly shear thinning polymer solutions.
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DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.l052501
Abstract: Flow of viscoelastic polymer solutions in curved channels exhibits instability caused by the elastic nature of polymers even at low Reynolds numbers. However, scaling of the onset of this purely elastic instability in semidilute polymer… read more here.
Keywords: polymer solutions; elastic instability; instability; scaling purely ... See more keywords