Stress singularities and the formation of birefringent strands in stagnation flows of dilute polymer solutions

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 126-132

  Becherer, Paul ^a   Saarloos, Wim van ^a   Morozov, Alexander N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birefringent strand; FENE model; Singular behaviour; Stagnation point

Indexed keywords

POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS;

BIREFRINGENT STRAND; ELONGATIONAL FLOWS; FENE MODEL; FENE P MODELS; FLOW GEOMETRIES; POLYMER EXTENSION; SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR; SINGULAR POINTS; STAGNATION FLOWS; STAGNATION POINT; STAGNATION POINT FLOW; STRESS BEHAVIOUR; STRESS SINGULARITIES;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 58649116915     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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