The existence of acquired von Willebrand syndrome (AVWS) in patients with continuous flow
left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) is well documented and has been verified by …

This research article delves into the crucial role that polymers play in controlling the
boundary layer flow and heat transfer of non-Newtonian fluids past a stretching surface. To …

Extensional rheometry and Brownian dynamics simulations of flexible polymer solutions
confirm predictions based on blob concepts that coil-stretch hysteresis in extensional flows …

We show and explain how a long bead–spring chain, immersed in a homogeneous isotropic
turbulent flow, preferentially samples vortical flow structures. We begin with an elastic …

The addition of polymers modifies a flow in a non-trivial way that depends on fluid inertia
(given by the Reynolds number Re) and polymer elasticity (quantified by the Deborah …

A string of tracers interacting elastically in a turbulent flow is shown to have a dramatically
different behavior when compared to the noninteracting case. In particular, such an elastic …

We investigate theoretically the near-wall region in elastic turbulence of a dilute polymer
solution in the limit of large Weissenberg number. As has been established experimentally …

Bead-rod-spring models are the foundation of the kinetic theory of polymer solutions. We
derive the diffusion equation for the probability density function of the configuration of a …

Rheological models for polymer solutions and melts based on the finitely extensible non-
linear elastic (FENE) dumbbell theory are reviewed in this study. The FENE-P model that is a …

The dynamics of single DNA molecules in a homogeneous planar elongational electric field
is investigated in the framework of the Hookean Dumbbell model. For a Gaussian, rapidly …