Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-10-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of 5th International Mini-Symposium on Liquids
Scientific paper
Polymer melts represent the flow-history-dependent behavior. To clearly show this behavior, we have investigated flow behavior of an entangled polymer melt around two cylinders placed in tandem along the flow direction in a two dimensional periodic system. In this system, the polymer states around a cylinder in downstream side are different from the ones around another cylinder in upstream side because the former ones have a memory of a strain experienced when passing around the cylinder in upstream side but the latter ones do not have the memory. Therefore, the shear stress distributions around two cylinders are found to be different from each other. Moreover, we have found that the averaged flow velocity decreases accordingly with increasing the distance between two cylinders while the applied external force is constant. While this behavior is consistent with that of the Newtonian fluid, the flow-history-dependent behavior enhances the reduction of the flow resistance.
Murashima Takahiro
Taniguchi Takashi
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