Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-04-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
We report on a non trivial dynamics of the interface between shear bands following a start-up of flow in a semi-dilute wormlike micellar system investigated using a combination of mechanical and optical measurements. During the building of the banding structure, we observed the stages of formation, migration of the interface between bands and finally the destabilization of this interface along the vorticity axis. The mechanical signature of these processes has been indentified in the time series of the shear stress. The interface instability occurs all along the stress plateau, the asymptotic wavelength of the patterns increasing with the control parameter typically from a fraction of the gap width to about four times the gap width. Three main regimes of dynamics are highlighted : a spatially stable oscillating mode approximately at the middle of the coexistence region flanked by two ranges where the dynamics appears more exotic with propagative and chaotic events respectively at low and high shear rates. The distribution of small particles seeded in the solution strongly suggests that the flow is three-dimensional. Finally, we demonstrate that the shear-banding scenario described in this paper is not specific to our system.
Argentina Mederic
Cardoso Olivier
Fardin M. A.
Grégoire Gh.
Lerouge Sandra
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