Optimized cross-slot flow geometry for microfluidic extension rheometry
Haward, S.J. and Oliveira, Monica and Alves, M.A. and McKinley, G.H. (2012) Optimized cross-slot flow geometry for microfluidic extension rheometry. Physical Review Letters, 109 (12). 128301. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
A precision-machined cross-slot flow geometry with a shape that has been optimized by numerical simulation of the fluid kinematics is fabricated and used to measure the extensional viscosity of a dilute polymer solution. Full-field birefringence microscopy is used to monitor the evolution and growth of macromolecular anisotropy along the stagnation point streamline, and we observe the formation of a strong and uniform birefringent strand when the dimensionless flow strength exceeds a critical Weissenberg number Wicrit 0:5. Birefringence and bulk pressure drop measurements provide self consistent estimates of the planar extensional viscosity of the fluid over a wide range of deformation rates (26 s1 "_ 435 s1) and are also in close agreement with numerical simulations performed by using a finitely extensible nonlinear elastic dumbbell model.
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Haward, S.J., Oliveira, Monica ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 41325 |
Keywords: | flow geometry, microfluidics, rheometry, polymer solutions, anisotropy, birefringence, cross-flow, Mechanical engineering and machinery, Physics and Astronomy(all) |
Subjects: | Technology > Mechanical engineering and machinery |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Technology and Innovation Centre > Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 02 Oct 2012 10:38 |
Last modified: | 20 Jan 2021 20:18 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/41325 |
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