Migration and chaining of noncolloidal spheres suspended in a sheared viscoelastic medium. Experiments and numerical simulations

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 203, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-8

  Pasquino, Rossana ^a   D'Avino, Gaetano ^a   Maffettone, Pier Luca ^a   Greco, Francesco ^b   Grizzuti, Nino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alignment; Flow induced microstructure; Micellar solutions; Migration; Spheres; Suspensions

Indexed keywords

2D SIMULATIONS; FLOW-VORTICITY PLANE; GIESEKUS FLUIDS; MICELLAR SOLUTION; MIGRATION; OLDROYD-B MODELS; PARTICLE CHAIN; VISCO-ELASTIC MEDIUMS;

ALIGNMENT; CHAINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOELASTICITY;

SPHERES;

EID: 84887743960     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2013.10.006     Document Type: Article

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