Criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability in the flows of shear-banding fluids

Details Criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability in the flows of shear-banding fluids Criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability in the flows of shear-banding fluids

2011-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/1108.2731v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 3 figures

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In the past twenty years, shear-banding flows have been probed by various techniques, such as rheometry, velocimetry and flow birefringence. In micellar solutions, many of the data collected exhibit unexplained spatio-temporal fluctuations. Recently, it has been suggested that those fluctuations originate from a purely elastic instability of the flow. In cylindrical Couette geometry, the instability is reminiscent of the Taylor-like instability observed in viscoelastic polymer solutions. In this letter, we describe how the criterion for purely elastic Taylor-Couette instability should be adapted to shear-banding flows. We derive three categories of shear-banding flows with curved streamlines, depending on their stability.

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