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Design of viscometers corresponding to a universal molecular simulation method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Kaushik Dayal  and
Richard D. James
Kaushik Dayal
Affiliation:
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Richard D. James*
Affiliation:
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: james@umn.edu
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Abstract

We present conceptual designs of viscometers corresponding to our new exact molecular simulation method (Dayal & James, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, vol. 58 (2), 2010, pp. 145–163). The molecular simulation method is a generalization of the method of Lees & Edwards (J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys., vol. 5, 1972, p. 1921), and includes a three-parameter family of incompressible flows, as well as compressible flows and unsteady flows exhibiting vortex stretching. All fluids are allowed. The method gives a way to simulate these flows using relatively few molecules, in the absence of a constitutive relation describing the fluid. This paper presents conceptual designs for viscometers that produce large families of these flows. The basic theme of this paper is that the flows discussed here are a better way to characterize the properties of complex fluids than the currently available methods, such as those based on viscometric flows.

JFM classification

Complex Fluids: Complex Fluids Mathematical Foundations: Computational methods Micro-/Nano-fluid dynamics: Non-continuum effects
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 691 , 25 January 2012 , pp. 461 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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