Understanding viscoelastic flow instabilities: Oldroyd-B and beyond

HAC Sánchez, MR Jovanović, S Kumar… - Journal of Non …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Oldroyd-B model has been used extensively to predict a host of instabilities in shearing
flows of viscoelastic fluids, often realized experimentally using polymer solutions. The …

[PDF][PDF] Transport of complex and active fluids in porous media

M Kumar, JS Guasto, AM Ardekani - Journal of Rheology, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Complex and active fluids find broad applications in flows through porous materials.
Nontrivial rheology can couple to porous microstructure leading to surprising flow patterns …

Perspectives on viscoelastic flow instabilities and elastic turbulence

SS Datta, AM Ardekani, PE Arratia, AN Beris… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are
encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of …

Elastic instabilities in planar elongational flow of monodisperse polymer solutions

SJ Haward, GH McKinley, AQ Shen - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We investigate purely elastic flow instabilities in the almost ideal planar stagnation point
elongational flow field generated by a microfluidic optimized-shape cross-slot extensional …

A mathematician's perspective on the Oldroyd B model: Progress and future challenges

M Renardy, B Thomases - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
We review progress and open challenges for a number of problems related to the Oldroyd B
model which are of current interest to the mathematical community. We discuss existence …

The log-conformation tensor approach in the finite-volume method framework

A Afonso, PJ Oliveira, FT Pinho, MA Alves - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid …, 2009 - Elsevier
The log-conformation formulation, proposed by Fattal and Kupferman [J. Non-Newt. Fluid
Mech. 123 (2004) 281], has helped to provide further insights into the High-Weissenberg …

Numerical investigation of multistability in the unstable flow of a polymer solution through porous media

M Kumar, S Aramideh, CA Browne, SS Datta… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The flow of viscoelastic polymeric fluids through porous media is common in industrial
applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. Polymeric stresses can lead …

Extensional rheology and elastic instabilities of a wormlike micellar solution in a microfluidic cross-slot device

SJ Haward, TJ Ober, MSN Oliveira, MA Alves… - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Wormlike micellar surfactant solutions are encountered in a wide variety of important
applications, including enhanced oil recovery and ink-jet printing, in which the fluids are …

[HTML][HTML] Extensional rheometry of mobile fluids. Part II: Comparison between the uniaxial, planar, and biaxial extensional rheology of dilute polymer solutions using …

SJ Haward, S Varchanis, GH McKinley, MA Alves… - Journal of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Part I of this paper [Haward et al., J. Rheol. 67, 995–1009 (2023)] presents a three-
dimensional microfluidic device (the optimized uniaxial and biaxial extensional rheometer …

Microfluidic extensional rheometry using stagnation point flow

SJ Haward - Biomicrofluidics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Characterization of the extensional rheometry of fluids with complex microstructures is of
great relevance to the optimization of a wide range of industrial applications and for …