The apparent shear viscosity of p-methoxybenzylidene-p'-n-butylaniline in the presence of electrohydrodynamic convection (EHC) is investigated experimentally. In the absence of an electric field, directors are almost aligned along the flow direction such that the viscosity is close to the minimum of the Miesowicz viscosities. Since EHC disturbs the flow-aligned director configuration, the visco...

Success of a drilling, workover or completion fluid can be directly attributed to its viscosity at the shear rate of interest. In practice, fluids are subjected to a wide range of shear rates; therefore, a thorough understanding of fluid rheology and the impact of shear is necessary to optimize fluid design. Ideally, high viscosity is desirable only under low shear rate conditions, and should d...

New and published experimental measurements of spatial and temporal aspects of variable-viscosity convection are compared with boundary layer models. Viscosity m is assumed to decrease with increasing temperature T so that convection occurs beneath a relatively stagnant layer. Of particular interest to applications involving asymptotically large viscosity variations, is the result that both the...

In this work, the shear viscosity at ambient conditions of several water models (SPC/E, TIP4P, TIP5P, and TIP4P/2005) is evaluated using the Green-Kubo formalism. The performance of TIP4P/2005 is excellent, that of SPC/E and TIP5P is more or less acceptable, whereas TIP4P and especially TIP3P give a poor agreement with experiment. Further calculations have been carried out for TIP4P/2005 to pro...

We examine the effects of confinement on the dynamics of premelted films driven by thermomolecular pressure gradients. Our approach is to modify a well-studied setting in which the thermomolecular pressure gradient is driven by a temperature gradient parallel to an interfacially premelted elastic wall. The modification treats the increase in viscosity associated with the thinning of films, stud...

Nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations are performed to compute the shear viscosities of a simple Lennard-Jones fluid across a wide range of densities and temperatures that span the liquid phase. It is found that the standard mode-coupling value of beta = 0.05 for the exponent of the strain rate power-law dependence (eta = eta0-eta1gammabeta) is only applicable in a very narrow region of...

In this paper, we consider the fully overdamped Frenkel-Kontorova model. This is an infinite system of coupled first order ODEs. Each ODE represents the microscopic evolution of one particle interacting with its neighbors and submitted to a fixed periodic potential. After a proper rescaling, a macroscopic model describing the evolution of densities of particles is obtained. We get this homogeni...

We consider a financial model with permanent price impact. Continuous time trading dynamics are derived as the limit of discrete rebalancing policies. We then study the problem of super-hedging a European option. Our main result is the derivation of a quasi-linear pricing equation. It holds in the sense of viscosity solutions. When it admits a smooth solution, it provides a perfect hedging stra...

We study the spatially correlated motions of colloidal particles in a quasi-2D system (human serum albumin protein molecules at an air-water interface) for different surface viscosities eta s. We observe a transition in the behavior of the correlated motion, from 2D interface dominated at high eta s to bulk fluid dependent at low eta s. The correlated motions can be scaled onto a master curve w...

The density and viscosity of carbonated aqueous 35wt% methyldiethanolamine solution were experimentally measured accompanied with the solubility of CO2 at temperatures from (303.15 to 363.15) K and pressures up to 0.8 MPa using the new setup developed in our laboratory.It was observed that both density and viscosity of mixtures decrease by increasing temperature and incr...