Criterion for extensional necking instability in polymeric fluids

Details Criterion for extensional necking instability in polymeric fluids Criterion for extensional necking instability in polymeric fluids

2011-09-12

arxiv.org/abs/1109.2528v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

We study the linear instability with respect to necking of a filament of polymeric fluid undergoing uniaxial extension. Contrary to the widely discussed Considere criterion, we find the onset of instability to relate closely to the onset of downward curvature in the time (and so strain) evolution of the zz component of the molecular strain, for extension along the z axis. In establishing this result numerically across five of the most widely used models of polymer rheology, and by analytical calculation, we argue it to apply generically. Particularly emphasized is the importance of polymer chain stretching in partially mitigating necking. We comment finally on the relationship between necking and the shape of the underlying steady state constitutive curve for homogeneous extension.

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