Microfluidics is very important in the world of BioMEMS, particularly for lab-ona-chip devices. There are many unusual differences from conventional fluidics, such as the significance of surface forces, the high shear/extensional rate, the high heat transfer rate, the low Reynolds number, and the high Weissenberg number. In this study, aqueous solutions of high molecular-weight polymers, polyet...

A Green-Kubo expression for the nonequilibrium correction to the velocity distribution function is studied in a molecular dynamics simulation for systems interacting through a 6-12 potential and undergoing linear shear. As a function of velocity, the first correction to the distribution function has a form similar to what would be obtained from the Boltzmann-Enskog equation, although the amplit...

Capillary rheometry simulates polymer extrusion in a simplified way. It allows the characterisation of polymers by means of determination of the viscosity function and extrudate swell. As regards viscous properties, there is still a lack of constitutive characterisation of rubber blends. In this contribution new concepts are presented how the viscous properties are computed without using common...

The effect of excluded volume interactions on the structure of a polymer in shear flow is investigated by Brownian Dynamics simulations for chains with size 30 ≤ N ≤ 300. The main results concern the structure factor S(q) of chains of N=300 Kuhn segments, observed at a reduced shear rate β = γ̇τ = 3.2, where γ̇ is the bare shear rate and τ is the longest relaxation time of the chain. At low q, wh...

Funada & Joseph (2002) analyzed capillary instability assuming that the flow is irrotational but the fluids are viscous (viscous potential flow, VPF). They compared their results with the exact normal mode solution of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations (fully viscous flow, FVF) and with the irrotational flow of inviscid fluids (inviscid potential flow, IPF). They showed that the growth rate...

An isotropic structure modelled as a Timoshenko beam is considered for the optimal vibration control problem. The model to be controlled described by distributed parameter system with selection of Timoshenko?s shear correction factor. Control vibrations achieved through function placed on boundary conditions. performance index which seeks minimized indicates that goal minimize magnitude measure...

We propose in this paper a novel inverse tangent transverse shear deformation formulation for functionally graded material (FGM) plates. The isogeometric finite element analysis (IGA) of static, free vibration and buckling problems of FGM plates is then addressed using a refined plate theory (RPT). The RPT enables us to describe the non-linear distribution of shear stresses through the plate th...

Recently proposed thermal-shear and spin-Hall contributions to the particle polarization in heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Alternative definitions of contribution, i.e. those Becattini-Buzzegoli-Palermo on one hand Liu-Yin other, very similar midrapidity region while quite different at forward-backward rapidities, which measured fixed-target experiments. It is shown that contribution globa...

We present the theoretical and analytical bases of optimal techniques to measure weak gravitational shear from images of galaxies. We first characterize the geometric space of shears and ellipticity, then use this geometric interpretation to analyse images. The steps of this analysis include: measurement of object shapes on images, combining measurements of a given galaxy on different images, e...

In this paper, we present an effectively numerical approach based on isogeometric analysis (IGA) and higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT) for geometrically nonlinear analysis of laminated composite plates. The HSDT allows us to approximate displacement field that ensures by itself the realistic shear strain energy part without shear correction factors. IGA utilizing basis functions name...