This article presents a staggered grid time-domain finite-difference (FD) program for the simulation of sH-wave propagation in a viscoelastic heterogeneous medium. The incorporation of realistic damping in FD program is based on a rheological model widely known as generalized maxwell body (gmB-EK). The accuracy of implementation of realistic damping is validated by comparing the numerically com...

We demonstrate the microscopic equivalent of a step-stress rheological measurement. An optical torque is applied to a birefringent wax microdisk embedded in gelatin, a highly entangled viscoelastic biopolymer, using circularly polarized laser tweezers. By increasing the laser power and measuring the angular displacement of the disk, we explore the microscopic rheological response of presheared ...

One of the newest of viscoelastic RANS turbulence models for drag reducing channel flow with polymer additives is studied in different flow and rheological properties. In this model, finitely extensible nonlinear elastic-Peterlin (FENE-P) constitutive model is used to describe the viscoelastic effect of polymer solution and turbulence model is developed in the k-ϵ-(ν^2 ) ̅-f framework. The geome...

We have extensively investigated the mechanical properties of passive eye muscles, in vivo, in anesthetized and paralyzed monkeys. The complexity inherent in rheological measurements makes it desirable to present the results in terms of a mathematical model. Because Fung's quasi-linear viscoelastic (QLV) model has been particularly successful in capturing the viscoelastic properties of passive ...

Understanding of viscoelastic drop impact on porous solid surfaces emerges as the essential physics for broad industrial and biological systems. However, there have been few studies concerning post-drop transition considering rheological properties dynamics. Here, we report post-impact dynamics drops mesh using experimental theoretical analyses. Five concentrations highly viscous polymer soluti...

to evaluate the effect of replacing the almond meal on viscoelastic properties of rice cake, stress relaxation test was carried out. stress relaxation test were conducted using a texture analyzer machine. constants of the peleg - normand and the extended maxwell model for variables were calculated. the results showed that with increasing strain rate increased amount of k1, k2 and decay forces, ...

A new scanning probe-based microrheology approach is used to quantify the frequency-dependent viscoelastic behavior of both fibroblast cells and polymer gels. The scanning probe shape was modified using polystyrene beads for a defined surface area nondestructively deforming the sample. An extended Hertz model is introduced to measure the frequency-dependent storage and loss moduli even for thin...

Rheological behavior of a dispersion of small nearly-unilamellar phospholipid bilayer vesicles has been investigated. We conducted steady-state shear experiments and linear viscoelastic experiments. In the dilute and semidilute regime the rheological behavior is similar to that of a hard-sphere dispersion as reported in the literature for viscoelasticmeasurements, butnowalso observed in steady ...

We used a cone and plate rheometer to evaluate the mechanical properties of actin over a wide range of oscillation frequencies and shear rates. Remarkably, both filamentous and nonfilamentous actin behaved as viscoelastic solids in both oscillatory and shear type experiments, providing that they were given ample time to equilibrate. Actin was purified by gel filtration from rabbit skeletal musc...