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The dynamics of a spheroidal vesicle, bounded by an inextensible membrane, is analyzed in function of the enclosed fluid viscosity, and of the membrane mechanical properties. The two situations in which a bending rigidity and a shear…

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The interaction of polymers with turbulent shear flows is examined. We focus on the structure of the elastic stress tensor, which is proportional to the polymer conformation tensor. We examine this object in turbulent flows of increasing…

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When a drop of fluid hits a small solid target of comparable size, it expands radially until reaching a maximum diameter and subsequently recedes. In this work, we show that the expansion process of liquid sheets is controlled by a…

The shear viscosity for a moderately dense granular binary mixture of smooth hard spheres undergoing uniform shear flow is determined. The basis for the analysis is the Enskog kinetic equation, solved first analytically by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicente Garzo , Jose Maria Montanero

Efficient and safe drilling operations require precise determination of rheological properties in drilling fluids, encompassing dynamic viscosity for Newtonian fluids, and apparent viscosity, plastic viscosity, and yield point for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Sanket Biswas , Harshita Tiwari , Sujata Verma , Kamlesh Kumari

We present simulations for the steady-shear rheology of a model adhesive dispersion. We vary the range of the attractive forces $u$ as well as the strength of the dissipation $b$. For large dissipative forces, the rheology is governed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-24 Ehsan Irani , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Claus Heussinger

We present predictions for the flow of elastoviscoplastic (EVP) fluids in the 4 to 1 planar contraction geometry. The Saramito-Herschel-Bulkley fluid model is solved via the finite-volume method with the OpenFOAM software. Both the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-19 Milad Mousavi , Yannis Dimakopoulos , John Tsamopoulos

This study examines the flow of dense granular materials under external shear stress and pressure using discrete element method simulations. In this method, the material is allowed to strain along all periodic directions and adapt its solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-24 Ishan Srivastava , Leonardo E. Silbert , Gary S. Grest , Jeremy B. Lechman

Viscosity is a fundamental property of liquid lubricants, yet it is challenging to determine accurately, especially at high pressures. Although equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulations are a promising alternative to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gözdenur Toraman , Dieter Fauconnier , Toon Verstraelen

We investigate extensional viscosity and polymer conformation in dilute polymer solutions under uniaxial extensional flow using dissipative particle dynamics simulations. At high extension rates, polymers are significantly stretched by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-27 Yusuke Koide , Takato Ishida , Takashi Uneyama , Yuichi Masubuchi

Although the non-equilibrium behaviour of polymer solutions is generally well understood, particularly in extensional flow, there remain several unanswered questions for dilute solutions in simple shear flow, and full quantitative agreement…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-06-19 I. Pincus , A. Rodger , J. Ravi Prakash

The aim of this paper is to present a modeling for the rheological behavior of simple liquids as a function of the amplitude of the imposed shear stress or strain. The elastic mode theory (Ref. 6) is first generalized to take into account…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-14 Frédéric Aitken , Ferdinand Volino

The growing importance of microfluidic and nanofluidic devices to the study of biological processes has highlighted the need to better understand how confinement affects the behavior of polymers in flow. In this paper we explore one aspect…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-05 Pinaki Bhattacharyya , Binny J. Cherayil

The stretched exponential relaxation function is used to analyze the relaxation of the glassy state data. Due to the singularity of this function at the origin, this function is inconvenient for data analysis. Concerning this, a Prony…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Shuli Chen , Marrten V. de Hoop , Youjun Deng , Ching-Lung Lin , Gen Nakamura

Within a parton cascade approach we investigate the scaling of the differential elliptic flow $v_2(p_T)$ with eccentricity $\epsilon_x$ and system size and its sensitivity to finite shear viscosity. We present calculations for shear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-16 G. Ferini , M. Colonna , M. Di Toro , V. Greco

The interpretation of the measured elliptic and higher order collective flows in heavy-ion collisions in terms of viscous hydrodynamics depends sensitively on the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density. Here we perform a quantitative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Anton Wiranata , Madappa Prakash

The present article has addressed the finite magnetic field extension of the previous work by Cho et al. (Phys. Rev. B 108, 235172, 2023) on microscopic calculation of shear viscosity for electron fluid in graphene system. Our calculation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Cho Win Aung , Thandar Zaw Win , Subhalaxmi Nayak , Sabyasachi Ghosh

The velocity and friction properties of laminar pipe flow of a viscoelastic solution are bounded by the corresponding values for two Newtonian fluids, namely, the solvent and a fluid with a viscosity identical to the total viscosity of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-28 M Malik , Roland Bouffanais , Martin Skote

Shear thickening, an increase of viscosity with shear rate, is a ubiquitous phenomena in suspended materials that has implications for broad technological applications. Controlling this thickening behavior remains a major challenge and has…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-08 Neil Y. C. Lin , Christopher Ness , Michael E. Cates , Jin Sun , Itai Cohen

Oscillatory shear tests are widely used in rheology to characterize the linear and non-linear mechanical response of complex fluids, including the yielding transition. There is an increasing urge to acquire detailed knowledge of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-07 Paolo Edera , Matteo Brizioli , Giuliano Zanchetta , George Petekidis , Fabio Giavazzi , Roberto Cerbino