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cond-mat.soft2009
Is there a Relationship between the Elongational Viscosity and the First Normal Stress Difference in Polymer Solutions?
A. Zell, S. Gier, S. Rafaï +1
We investigate a variety of different polymer solutions in shear and elongational flow. The shear flow is created in the cone-plate-geometry of a commercial rheometer. We use capil…
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Effective viscosity of microswimmer suspensions
Salima Rafai, Levan Jibuti, Philippe Peyla
The measurement of a quantitative and macroscopic parameter to estimate the global motility of a large population of swimming biological cells is a challenge Experiments on the rhe…