Non-axisymmetric instability of shear-banded Taylor-Couette flow

Details Non-axisymmetric instability of shear-banded Taylor-Couette flow Non-axisymmetric instability of shear-banded Taylor-Couette flow

2012-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/1201.1492v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures, main text and supplementary material; accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Recent experiments show that shear-banded flows of semi-dilute worm-like micelles in Taylor-Couette geometry exhibit a flow instability in the form of Taylor-like vortices. Here we perform the non-axisymmetric linear stability analysis of the diffusive Johnson-Segalman model of shear banding and show that the nature of this instability depends on the applied shear rate. For the experimentally relevant parameters, we find that at the beginning of the stress plateau the instability is driven by the interface between the bands, while most of the stress plateau is occupied by the bulk instability of the high-shear-rate band. Our work significantly alters the recently proposed stability diagram of shear-banded flows based on axisymmetric analysis.

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