The triple jet: influence of shear history on the stretching of polymer solutions

A kerosene-based aircraft safety fuel and aqueous solutions of poly (ethylene oxide) and polyacrylamide are examined using the “triple jet” system. This device allows the solution to be stretched as it flows from a capillary tube and the axial stress, strain and strain rate in the liquid are measured.The shear history of the solution is altered by placing cylindrical inserts in the capillary tube. This is shown to have a large effect on the extensional behaviour of aircraft safety fuel, a moderate effect on the extensional behaviour of poly (ethylene oxide) solution and little effect on the behaviour of polyacrylamide solution. The extensional viscosity of the aircraft fuel is raised by an order of magnitude when a long period of high shear is used; the effects last for periods of up to one second, though traditional methods suggest a relaxation time of the order of 10^?3 seconds. A liquid of shear viscosity 4 centipoise may have an extensional viscosity of over 100 poise.Plots of the extensional modulus of the jet as a function of distance along the jet emphasize the importance of shear history for the first two types of solution and suggest that the latter stages of the stretching process are elastic in character. Typical extensional moduli for the solutions tested are in the range 1.3–5.0 × 10⁴ dyn.cm^?2.The relevance of the interplay between shearing and stretching flow to the phenomena of lubrication and turbulence suppression is mentioned.     

Large deflection problem of a clamped elliptical plate subjected to uniform pressure

In this paper, the perturbation solution of large deflection problem of clamped elliptical plate subjected to uniform pressure is given on the basis of the perturbation solution of large deflection problem of similar clamped circular plate (1948), (1954). The analytical solution of this problem was obtained in 1957. However, due to social difficulties, these results have never been published. Nash and Cooley (1959) published a brief note of similar nature, in which only the case λ=a/b=2 is given. In this paper, the analytical solution is given in detail up to the 2nd approximation. The numerical solutions are given for various Poisson ratios v=0.25, 0.30, 0.35 and for various eccentricities λ=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, which can be used in the calculation of engineering designs.     

On the Chaotic Behaviour of Discontinuous Systems

We follow a functional analytic approach to study the problem of chaotic behaviour in time-perturbed discontinuous systems whose unperturbed part has a piecewise C ¹ homoclinic solution that crosses transversally the discontinuity manifold. We show that if a certain Melnikov function has a simple zero at some point, then the system has solutions that behave chaotically. Application of this result to quasi periodic systems are also given.     

Use of Synchrotron Tomographic Techniques in the Assessment of Diffusion Parameters for Solute Transport in Groundwater Flow

This technical note describes the use of time-resolved synchrotron radiation tomographic energy dispersive diffraction imaging (TEDDI) and tomographic X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) for examining ion diffusion in porous media. The technique is capable of tracking the diffusion of several ion species simultaneously. This is illustrated by results which compare the movement of Cs⁺, Ba²⁺ and La³⁺ ions from solution into a typical sample of English chalk. The results exhibited somewhat anomalous (non-Fickian) behaviour and revealed heterogeneities (in 1D) on the scale of a few millimetres.     

Penny-shaped crack in transversely isotropic piezoelectric materials

Using a method of potential functions introduced successively to integrate the field equations of three-dimensional problems for transversely isotropic piezoelectric materials, we obtain the so-called general solution in which the displacement components and electric potential functions are represented by a singular function satisfying some special partial differential equations of 6th order. In order to analyse the mechanical-electric coupling behaviour of penny-shaped crack for above materials, another form of the general solution is obtained under cylindrical coordinate system by introducing three quasi-harmonic functions into the general equations obtained above. It is shown that both the two forms of the general solutions are complete. Furthermore, the mechanical-electric coupling behaviour of penny-shaped crack in transversely isotropic piezoelectric media is analysed under axisymmetric tensile loading case, and the crack-tip stress field and electric displacement field are obtained. The results show that the stress and the electric displacement components near the crack tip have (r ^−1/2) singularity. The project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province, China     

Tests of drag-reducing polymer coated on a riblet surface

Experiments have been carried out at BMT where the drag reduction due to Hoechst U-groove riblets, a polymer coating, and the two combined were measured in a towing tank on a one-third scale model of the America's Cup winning yacht, Australia II. The results indicated that the riblet/polymer combination offered an overall improvement in drag reduction characteristics over either riblets or polymer coating alone, with a maximum reduction of 3.5% observed for a non-dimensional S ⁺=8. The qualitative behaviour of the drag reduction was similar to that recorded in earlier pipe flow experiments, employing an injection of polymer additive and 3M V-groove riblets, but contrary to that recorded in studies of an axisymmetric body, also coated with 3M riblets, in a drop tank filled with a polymer solution.     

On corner flows of Oldroyd-B fluids

Exact series solutions for planar creeping flows of Oldroyd-B fluids in the neighbourhood of sharp corners are presented and discussed. Both reentrant and non-reentrant sectors are considered. For reentrant sectors it is shown that more than one type of series solution can exist formally, one type exhibiting Newtonian-like asymptotic behaviour at the corner, away from walls, and another type exhibiting the same kind of asymptotics as an Upper Convected Maxwell (UCM) fluid. The solutions which are Newtonian-like away from walls are shown to develop non-integrable stress singularities at the walls when the no-slip velocity boundary condition is imposed. These mathematical solutions are therefore inadmissible from the physical viewpoint under no-slip conditions. An inadmissible solution, with stress singularities which are not everywhere integrable, is identified among the solutions of UCM-type. For a 270° reentrant sector the radial behaviour of the normal stress is everywhere r^−0.613. In the viscometric region near a wall, the radial normal stress σ^rr behaves like (rε)^−0.613, where ε is the angle made with the wall. In addition σ^rθ is infinite (not integrable) at the wall even when r is non-zero. Another UCM-type solution has a normal stress behaviour away from walls which is r^−0.985 for 270° sector. Again, this solution has a non-integrable stress singularity and is therefore inadmissible. Finally, for non-reentrant sectors it is shown that the flow is always Newtonian-like away from walls.     

Anomalous shear banding: multidimensional dynamics under fluctuating slip conditions

The strain-controlled flow of a wormlike micellar solution in cylindrical Couette geometries with smooth and rough glass inner walls is investigated using 2D ¹H NMR velocimetry. We find anomalous shear banding in which fluctuating slip dynamics in combination with surfactant properties lead to a non-lever rule behaviour where the interface position remains constant while the high and low shear rates change. Velocities in the flow direction are imaged in the flow-gradient/vorticity plane. The spatiotemporal resolution achieved reveals fluctuations in flow structure along the vorticity axis and instability of the high shear band.     

Rheological behaviour of vitreous humour

The vitreous humour (VH) is a complex biofluid that occupies a large portion of the eyeball between the lens and the retina, and exhibits non-Newtonian rheological properties that are key for its function in the eye. It is often possible to distinguish two different phases in VH, known as liquid and gel phases (Sebag J Eye 1: 254–262, 1987). In this work, we present a detailed rheological characterisation of the two phases of the VH under shear and extensional flow conditions. Healthy New Zealand rabbit eyes were used to measure the surface tension and the shear and extensional rheological properties of VH in different phase conformations and at different times after dissection. The results show that VH liquid phase exhibits a surface tension of 47.8 mN/m, a shear thinning behaviour reaching a viscosity plateau around 10^?3 Pa s for shear rates above ~1000 s^?1, and an average relaxation time of 9.7 ms in extensional flow. Interestingly, both VH phases present higher storage modulus than loss modulus, and the measurements performed with VH gel phase 4?±?1 h after dissection exhibit the highest moduli values. The compliance measurements for the gel phase show a viscoelastic gel behaviour and that compliance values decrease substantially with time after dissection. Our results show that the two VH phases exhibit viscoelastic behaviour, but with distinct rheological characteristics, consistent with a gel phase mostly composed of collagen entangled by hyaluronan and a second phase mainly composed of hyaluronan in aqueous solution.     

Comportement rhéologique de sols d'acide polysilicique.

Résumé Le comportement rhéologique de sols d'acide silicique a été examiné au cours du temps à des pH compris entre 6 et 8 à la concentration de 10 g 1^–1 de silice, et à pH = 8 à des concentrations variant entre 0,5 et 10 g 1^–1. Les courbes d'écoulement révélent un comportement rhéologique complexe. L'analyse des rhéogrammes en fonction du temps, du pH et de la concentration contribue à la connaissance de l'état structural du polymère au cours de la formation du gel. Il ressort que le comportement initialement rhéoépaississant aux faibles concentrations correspondant à l'état d'une solution colloïdale, laisse place à un écoulement rhéofluidifiant dans les conditions favorables á la polymérisation de l'acide silicique. La transition sol-gel est marquée par un breakpoint; en prolongeant les mesures on observe un comportement plastique dû à l'apparition d'agrégats sous l'effet du cisaillement. Tous les processus rhéologiques se trouvent exacerbées à pH = 8.

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The rheological behaviour of silicic acid in aqueous solutions was studied over a period of time for pH values between 6 and 8 at the concentration 10 g 1^–1, and at pH = 8 for different concentrations varying from 0.5 to 10 g 1^–1. The shear stress-shear rate curves indicate a very complex character of rheological behaviour. Its analysis with respect to the influence of time, pH and concentration contributes to the knowledge of the structure of the polymer during the process of gel formation. It is shown that the inital shear-thickening behaviour of the colloïdal sol at low concentrations is followed by a shear-thinning behaviour under conditions of polymerization of the silicic acid. The sol-gel transition is marked by a breakpoint. When measurements pass beyond this point, plastic flow behaviour is observed because of the shear induced formation of amorphous silicic aggregates. All rheological processes of silicic acid sols are intensified at pH = 8.

     

Wall slip and melt fracture of poly(lactides)

The wall slip and melt fracture behaviour of several commercial polylactides (PLAs) as well as their rheological properties under shear and extensional have been investigated. The PLAs have had weight-average molecular weights in the range of 10⁴–10⁵ g/mol and studied in the temperature range of 160–200°C. The solution properties and linear viscoelastic behaviour of melts indicate linear microstructure behaviour. PLAs with molecular weights greater than a certain value were found to slip, with the slip velocity to increase with decrease of molecular weight. The capillary data were found to agree well with linear viscoelastic envelope once correction for slip effects was applied. The onset of melt fracture for the high molecular weight PLAs was found to occur at about 0.2 to 0.3 MPa, depending on the geometrical characteristics of the dies and independent of temperature. Addition of 0.5 wt.% of a polycaprolactone (PCL) into the PLA that exhibits melt fracture was found to be effective in eliminating and delaying the onset of melt fracture to higher shear rates. This is due to significant interfacial slip that occurs in the presence of PCL.     

Elasto-plastic behaviour of double-curved shells under a concentrated load

The paper presents the application of the so-called geometrical elements method to the solution of the elasto-plastic behaviour of spherical shells subjected to an axisymmetrical concentrated load. The approach is based on the observation that during large deformations, the shell structure deforms in a nearly isometrical manner. The shell is sub-divided into elements of two kinds: purely-isometrically deformed elements and quasi-isometrically deformed elements. Equilibrium of the structure is defined by the stationariness of the total potential energy. The total energy is compared with Pogorelov's result for the same strain energy. The solution obtained defines the large deformation behaviour and motion of the plastic zones on the surface of the shell.A simplified solution for similar problems of the shells with double positive Gaussian curvature is also presented.     

A novel approach to high shear rate rheometry

A procedure is presented for converting torque-speed plots obtained from experiments using discs rotating rapidly in shear thinning materials into information on the viscosity function. The method is based on an exact boundary-layer solution for the power-law model and on the concept of pseudo-similarity of non-Newtonian flows. It enables the rheological behaviour to be evaluated at very high shear rates. Experimental data for concentrated shear-thinning kaolin suspensions at shear rates from 400 to 2 10⁵s^–1 are compared with values of the viscosity function obtained from customary viscometers of the Brookfield and Couette type.     

Molecular interpretation of the behaviour of polyisobutylene in different solvents

The effects of solvent environment on the behaviour of a high molecular weight polyisobutylene dissolved in kerosene and various grades of poly-1-butene solvent mixtures are investigated. The dependence of various molecular parameters such as zero-shear viscosity, intrinsic viscosity, specific viscosity, relaxation time and molecular expansion factor, on the polymer concentration, type of solvent and solvent viscosity is studied in the vicinity of dilute and semidilute regions (near the critical concentrationc ^*). The dependence of these parameters on solvent environment follows qualitatively Zimm's molecular model. The dependence on the polymer concentration deviates from this dilute solution theory. The effects of temperature on the zero-shear viscosity and the Maxwell relaxation time are also presented for two PIB solutions.     

Extensional flow of polymer solutions through porous media

The flow behaviour of various polymer solutions of non-hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, hydrolyzed polyacrylamide, polyox and Xanthan was investigated in a plexiglass column having a succession of enlargements and constrictions, and compared with the flow behaviour and mechanical degradation of a solution of non-hydrolyzed polyacrylamide in a packed column of non-consolidated sand. The flow behaviour of this solution was found to be very similar in both the sand pack and plexiglass pore.Apart from the Xanthan solution, all other polymer solutions showed a viscoelastic behaviour in the plexiglass pore. The onset of viscoelastic behaviour, which has previously been defined using the shear rate ( ), stretch rate ( _s ) and Ellis number (E ₁), could be more precisely evaluated using a modified stretch rate (S _G). The pressure losses across the plexiglass pore for different polymer solutions of the same type were found to follow a unique curve provided the suggested group (S _G) was used, a situation which was not achieved with the other rheological parameters.The multipass mechanical degradation of the non-hydrolized polyacrylamide was tested through the sand pack against the suggested group (S _G) and Maerker's group (M _a). It was found that the loss of the solution viscoelasticity due to multipass mechanical degradation was better represented usingS _G thanM _a. A cross-sectional area (cm²) - C ^* critical concentration of polymer (ppm) - d plexiglass pore enlargement diameter - D average sand grain diameter (cm) - e equivalent width for the plexiglass pore - E ₁ Ellis number (a Deborah number) - F _R resistance factor - F _Ri resistance factor at the first pass - h height of the flow path of the plexiglass pore - K power-law constant - K _h,K _w effective permeability to hydrocarbon and water, respectively (10^–8 cm²) - M _a Maerker's group for a given porosity (s^–1) - M _ai value ofM _a at the first pass - N _D Deborah number - n power-law index - Q flow rate (cm³/s) - R capillary radius (cm) - R _g radius of gyration - S _G suggested group of rheological parameters representing a modified maximum stretch rate (s^–1) - S _Gi value ofS _G at the first pass - T _R,t characteristic time for the fluid (s) - t _s residence time (s) - V ₀ superficial velocity (cm/s) - V mean velocity of flow through a porous medium (cm/s) - average axial velocity in the enlargement section of the plexiglass pore (cm/s) - V ₁,V ₂ maximum velocity at a plexiglass enlargement neck and centre - [] intrincis viscosity - viscosity (mPa s) - _r relative viscosity (ratio of the viscosity of the polymer solution to that of the solvent) - shear rate (s^–1) - _s stretch rate (s^–1) - characteristic time for the polymer solution (s)     

Physically Reasonable Solutions to Steady Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations in 2d Exterior Domains with Nonzero Velocity at Infinity

In a previous paper, the present authors studied the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to steady compressible Navier-Stokes equations in barotropic and isothermal regime with sufficiently small external data, in particular, in the whole plane. Here, the same problem is investigated in a two dimensional exterior domain with the prescribed velocity at infinity v_￥ 1 0 v_{\infty}\ne 0 . Similar results as in Dutto and Novotny [DuNo] are found; in particular, it is proved that there exists a unique solution which possesses the similar pointwise decay and the wake structure as the fundamental Oseen tensor.     

Instabilities of micellar systems under homogeneous and non-homogeneous flow conditions

The rheological behavior of a cetylpyridinium chloride 100 mmol l^–1/sodium salicylate 60 mmol l^–1 aqueous solution was studied in this work under homogeneous (cone and plate) and non-homogeneous flow conditions (vane-bob and capillary rheometers), respectively. Instabilities consistent with non-monotonic flow curves were observed in all cases and the solution exhibited similar behavior under the different flow conditions. Hysteresis and the sigmoidal flow curve suggested as characteristic of systems that show constitutive instabilities were observed when running cycles of increasing and decreasing stress or shear rate, respectively. This information, together with a detailed determination of steady states at shear stresses close to the onset of the instabilities, allowed one to show unequivocally that "top and bottom jumping" are the mechanisms to trigger the instabilities in this micellar system. It is shown in addition that there is not a true plateau region in between the "top and bottom jumping". Finally, the flow behavior beyond the upturn seemed to be unstable and was found accompanied by an apparent violation of the no-slip boundary condition.     

Removable Singularities for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations

We obtain a removability result for the fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations F(D ² u)+f(u)=0. The main theorem states that every solution to the equation in a punctured ball (without any restrictions on the behaviour near the centre of the ball) is extendable to the solution in the entire ball provided the function f satisfies certain sharp conditions depending on F. Previously such results were known for linear and quasilinear operators F. In comparison with the semi- or quasilinear theory the techniques for the fully nonlinear equations are new and based on the use of the viscosity notion of generalised solution rather than the distributional or the weak solutions. Accepted May 3, 2000?Published online November 16, 2000     

Ductility of selected metals under electromagnetic ring test loading conditions

Experimental studies on ductility of selected metals differing mechanical properties under strain rates between 4 × 10³ and 2 × 10⁴ s^?1 are presented in this work. The electromagnetic expanding ring experiment was used as the primary tool for examining the ductility behaviour of metals. Through a use of the Phantom v12 digital high-speed camera and specialised TEMA Automotive software, rings expansion velocities were determined with satisfactory accuracy for all ring tests. In this paper, the experimental observations on cold-rolled copper Cu-ETP, aluminium alloy Al 7075, barrel steel and tungsten heavy alloy are reported. Ductility of studied materials was estimated by measuring changes in cross-sectional areas in the uniform strain portions of the recovered ring fragments. In a similar way the metals ductility was defined at the conventional tensile test condition. Moreover, results of analogue investigation for static and dynamic loading at the temperature of about ?40 °C were described. The experimental observations mainly revealed the different ductility behaviour of metals tested at applied dynamic loadings; Cu-ETP and barrel steel demonstrated an increase in ductility, whereas aluminium alloy Al 7075 and tungsten heavy alloy were characterised by lower ductility in comparison to static loading. These results appear to be partially in contrast with the observations reported recently by some other investigators.     

Multiaxial creep and cyclic plasticity in nickel-base superalloy C263

Physically-based constitutive equations for uniaxial creep deformation in nickel alloy C263 [Acta Mater. 50 (2002) 2917] have been generalised for multiaxial stress states using conventional von Mises type assumptions. A range of biaxial creep tests have been carried out on nickel alloy C263 in order to investigate the stress state sensitivity of creep damage evolution. The sensitivity has been quantified in C263 and embodied within the creep constitutive equations for this material. The equations have been implemented into finite element code. The resulting computed creep behaviour for a range of stress state compares well with experimental results. Creep tests have been carried out on double notched bar specimens over a range of nominal stress. The effect of the notches is to introduce multiaxial stress states local to the notches which influences creep damage evolution. Finite element models of the double notch bar specimens have been developed and used to test the ability of the model to predict correctly, or otherwise, the creep rupture lifetimes of components in which multiaxial stress states exist. Reasonable comparisons with experimental results are achieved. The γ^′ solvus temperature of C263 is about 925 °C, so that thermo-mechanical fatigue (TMF) loading in which the temperature exceeds the solvus leads to the dissolution of the γ^′ precipitate, and a resulting solution treated material. The cyclic plasticity and creep behaviour of the solution treated material is quite different to that of the material with standard heat treatment. A time-independent cyclic plasticity model with kinematic and isotropic hardening has been developed for solution treated and standard heat treated nickel-base superalloy C263. It has been combined with the physically-based creep model to provide constitutive equations for TMF in C263 over the temperature range 20–950 °C, capable of predicting deformation and life in creep cavitation-dominated TMF failure.