Stretching and mixing of non-Newtonian fluids in time-periodic flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Arratia, P E ^a   Voth, Greg A ^b   Gollub, J P ^a,c  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; MIXING; POLYMERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STRETCHING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOELASTICITY;

FLUID ELEMENTS; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; SHEAR THINNING; TIME LAGS;

NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

MIXING; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID;

EID: 20444397049     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1909184     Document Type: Article

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32. It is difficult to reporduce the rms velocity perfectly due to conductivity variations; it varies by up to 6% from run to run. However, these variations are not enough to affect our conclusions
33. See EPAPS Document No. E-PHFLE6-17-045505 for video animations of the velocity fields. This document can be reached via a direct link in the online article's HTML reference section or via the EPAPS homepage (http://www.aip.org/pubservs/epaps.html). Video animations of the velocity fields are also available at www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/ gollub/polymer_mixing.