Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-07-28
PRE (Rapid Comm.) 84, 015302(R) (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
8 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.84.015302
We study the statistical properties of spatially averaged global injected power fluctuations for Taylor-Couette flow of a worm-like micellar gel formed by surfactant CTAT. At sufficiently high Weissenberg numbers (Wi) the shear rate and hence the injected power p(t) at a constant applied stress shows large irregular fluctuations in time. The nature of the probability distribution function (pdf) of p(t) and the power-law decay of its power spectrum are very similar to that observed in recent studies of elastic turbulence for polymer solutions. Remarkably, these non-Gaussian pdfs can be well described by an universal large deviation functional form given by the Generalized Gumbel (GG) distribution observed in the context of spatially averaged global measures in diverse classes of highly correlated systems. We show by in-situ rheology and polarized light scattering experiments that in the elastic turbulent regime the flow is spatially smooth but random in time, in agreement with a recent hypothesis for elastic turbulence.
Majumdar Sayantan
Sood Ajay K.
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