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A theory of anisotropic fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

George L. Hand
George L. Hand
Affiliation:
Department of Mechanics, The Johns Hopkins University
Now with the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Geophysics Research Directorate.
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Abstract

A theory is proposed in which the stress tensor is a function of the components of the rate of deformation tensor and a symmetric tensor describing the microscopic structure of a fluid. The expression for the stress tensor can be written in closed form using results from the Hamilton-Cayley theorem. This theory is shown to contain Prager's theory of dumbbell suspensions as a special case. By limiting the type of terms in the constitutive equations, various stress components can be evaluated for simple shear. These exhibit non-Newtonian behaviour typical of certain higher polymer solutions.

Some of the results of the anisotropic fluid theory are compared with experimental measurements of normal stress and apparent viscosity. Certain high polymers in solution show good agreement between theory and experiment, at least for low enough values of the rate of shear.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , May 1962 , pp. 33 - 46
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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