Criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability in the flows of shear-banding fluids
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Fardin, Marc-Antoine; Ober, Thomas Joseph; Gay, C.; Gregoire, G.; McKinley, Gareth H.; Lerouge, S.; ... Show more Show less
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In the past twenty years, shear-banding flows have been probed by various techniques, such as rheometry, velocimetry and flow birefringence. In micellar solutions, many of the data collected exhibit unexplained spatio-temporal fluctuations. Recently, it has been suggested that those fluctuations originate from a purely elastic instability of the flow. In cylindrical Couette geometry, the instability is reminiscent of the Taylor-like instability observed in viscoelastic polymer solutions. In this letter, we describe how the criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability should be adapted to shear-banding flows. We derive three categories of shear-banding flows with curved streamlines, depending on their stability.
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2011-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
Europhysics Letters
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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Fardin, M. A., T. J. Ober, C. Gay, et al. 2011Criterion for Purely Elastic Taylor-Couette Instability in the Flows of Shear-banding Fluids. EPL (Europhysics Letters) 96(4): 44004.
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0295-5075
1286-4854