Stretch-coil transition and transport of fibers in cellular flows

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Young, Y N ^a   Shelley, Michael J ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINED FLOW; ELASTICITY;

CELLULAR FLOW; STOKESIAN FLUID;

FIBERS;

EID: 34547664677     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.058303     Document Type: Article

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21. See EPAPS Document No. E-PRLTAO-99-057732 for the stretch-coil transition of an elastic fiber in cellular flows. The resultant transport is illustrated for η=4000 (ETA_4000.mov) and η=8000 (ETA_8000.mov). For very large η the filament is trapped inside of the cell as shown in ETA_40000.mov for η=40000. For more information on EPAPS, see http://www.aip.org/pubservs/ epaps.html.