In this study prediction of the steady-state flow of branched polymer melts in pipe geometry with finite volume method is presented. Our analysis in this study revealed that;for normal-stress tqq , the XPP model can predict this tensor unlike the other viscoelastic models such as PTT or Gieskus which can not predict tqq...

We present the dynamic velocity profiles of a Newtonian fluid (glycerol) and a viscoelastic Maxwell fluid (CPyCl-NaSal in water) driven by an oscillating pressure gradient in a vertical cylindrical pipe. The frequency range explored has been chosen to include the first three resonance peaks of the dynamic permeability of the viscoelastic-fluid--pipe system. Three different optical measurement t...

Viscoelastic fluids are fluids that, in addition to having the property of viscosity, also have the property of elasticity. This is often the result of the introduction of a polymeric material to a non-viscoelastic fluid— the presence of these materials greatly affects the behavior of the fluid by introducing additional internal stresses. An example of this— and the focus of this paper— is the ...

This communication influences on magnetohydrodynamic flow of viscoelastic fluid with magnetic field induced by oscillating plate. General solutions have been found out for velocity and shear stress profiles using mathematical transformations (Integral transforms). The governing partial differential equations have been solved analytically under boundary conditions u(0,t)=A_0 H(t)sinΩt and u(0,t)...

The understanding of polymeric fluids flows is of essential importance for several industry sectors, including plastic and food processing industries. The rheological response of viscoelastic fluids is quite complex, including combination of viscous and elastic effects and highly non-linear viscous and elastic phenomena. In a previous work we presented a solver for internal viscoelastic fluid f...

Recently, Hashin-Shtrikman bounds for bulk and shear moduli of elastic composites have been extended to the moduli of composite viscoelastic media. Since viscoelastic moduli are complex, the viscoelastic bounds form a closed curve on a complex plane. We apply these general viscoelastic bounds to a particular case of a porous solid saturated with a Newtonian fluid. Our analysis shows that for po...

We precisely measure the force-free swimming speed of a rotating helix in viscous and viscoelastic fluids. The fluids are highly viscous to replicate the low Reynolds number environment of microorganisms. The helix, a macroscopic scale model for the bacterial flagellar filament, is rigid and rotated at a constant rate while simultaneously translated along its axis. By adjusting the translation ...

Recent experiments suggest that lipid bilayer membranes may be viscoelastic. We present a generalized "Saffman-Einstein" relation that may be used to determine the linear viscoelastic shear modulus from single-bead microrheology experiments on membranes. We show that viscoelastic parameters can also be extracted from membrane domain flicker spectroscopy experiments. Contributions from fluid ine...

In this work, we derive an analytical solution for heat transfer characteristics of a thermally developing flow of viscoelastic fluids under the application of an electroosmotic force. The walls are subjected to either in isothermal condition or a constant wall heat flux is employed. First, we derive a Helmholtz-Smoluchowski (HS) type slip velocity for the viscoelastic fluids, which is further ...

This study aims to investigate the unsteady boundary-layer flow of a viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluid over a flat surface. The plate is suddenly jerked to move with uniform velocity in a uniform stream of non-Newtonian fluid. Purely analytic solution to governing nonlinear equation is obtained. The solution is highly accurate and valid for all values of the dimensionless time 0 ≤ τ < ∞. Flow pr...