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Strain stiffening universality in composite hydrogels and soft tissues
Jake Song, Elad Deiss-Yehiely, Serra Yesilata +1
Soft biological tissues exhibit a remarkable resilience to large mechanical loads, a property which is associated with the strain stiffening capability of the biopolymer networks t…
Transition to elasto-capillary thinning dynamics in viscoelastic jets
Konstantinos Zinelis, Thomas Abadie, Gareth H. McKinley +1
We perform simulations of an impulsively-started, axisymmetric viscoelastic jet exiting a nozzle and entering a stagnant gas phase using the open-source code Basilisk. This code al…
Anomalous crystalline ordering of particles in a viscoelastic fluid under high shear
Sijie Sun, Nan Xue, Stefano Aime +5
Addition of particles to a viscoelastic suspension dramatically alters the properties of the mixture, particularly when it is sheared or otherwise processed. Shear-induced stretchi…
Extensional rheometry of mobile fluids. Part II: Comparison between the uniaxial, planar and biaxial extensional rheology of dilute polymer solutions using numerically-optimized stagnation point microfluidic devices
Simon J. Haward, Stylianos Varchanis, Gareth H. McKinley +2
In Part I of this paper [Haward et al. submitted (2023)], we presented a new three-dimensional microfluidic device (the optimized uniaxial and biaxial extensional rheometer, OUBER)…
Rod-climbing rheometry revisited
Rishabh V. More, Reid Patterson, Eugene Pashkovski +1
The rod-climbing or Weissenberg effect in which the free surface of a complex fluid climbs a thin rotating rod is a popular and convincing experiment demonstrating the existence of…
Evanescent Gels: Competition Between Sticker Dynamics and Single Chain Relaxation
Dominic Robe, Aritra Santra, Gareth H. McKinley +1
Solutions of polymer chains are modelled using non-equilibrium Brownian dynamics simulations, with physically associative beads which form reversible crosslinks to establish a syst…