On the Flow Curve of Colloids Presenting Shear-Induced Phase Transitions

Details On the Flow Curve of Colloids Presenting Shear-Induced Phase Transitions On the Flow Curve of Colloids Presenting Shear-Induced Phase Transitions

2007-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703560v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

12 pages

Scientific paper

This work deals with the evaluation of the flow curve of colloidal systems that develop fluid phases with different mechanical properties, namely shear-banding fluids. The problem involved is that, as different fluid phases coexist in the flow domain of the rheometric cell, measured data cannot be directly converted into rheometric functions. In order to handle this problem, a shear stress vs. shear rate constitutive relation is introduced to interpret the steady state flow curves. The relation derives from a phenomenological description of structural changes, and involves the possibility of multivalued shear rates under a given shear stress. Numerical predictions satisfactorily match up to experimental data of wormlike micellar solutions. A crucial aspect is the adequate computation of the shear rate function from raw data measured in the rheometric cell.

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