Start-up inertia as an origin for heterogeneous flow
Soft Condensed Matter
2017-03-01 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
For quite some time non-monotonic flow curve was thought to be a requirement for shear banded flows in complex fluids. Thus, in simple yield stress fluids shear banding was considered to be absent. Recent spatially resolved rheological experiments have found simple yield stress fluids to exhibit shear banded flow profiles. One proposed mechanism for the initiation of such transient shear banding process has been a small stress heterogeneity rising from the experimental device geometry. Here, using Computational Fluid Dynamics methods, we show that transient shear banding can be initialized even under homogeneous stress conditions by the fluid start-up inertia, and that such mechanism indeed is present in realistic experimental conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1702.01896,
title = {Start-up inertia as an origin for heterogeneous flow},
author = {Marko Korhonen and Mikael Mohtaschemi and Antti Puisto and Xavier Illa and Mikko J. Alava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.01896},
year = {2017}
}