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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 55: Flow-Induced Structures in Complex Fluids (with DRG, Deutsche Rheologische Gesellschaft, and DY)

CPP 55.9: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 17:30–17:45, C 264

Flow of complex fluids into porous media — •Viviane Lutz Bueno¹, Marianne Liebi², and Peter Fischer¹ — ¹ETH, Zürich, Switzerland — ²Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

The dynamic behavior of complex fluids is studied by controlling flow-geometry-fluid interactions. Quantitative information on flow-induced structures (FIS) and in-situ rheological response are reported. Wormlike micelles (WLMs) flowing through porous media lead to a highly transient and localized rheological signature, composed by shear-banding and FIS due to micellar alignment, stretching, and breaking down. The porous media is simplified by a single contraction for initial studies on shear/extensional rates, microstructure organization, and velocity fields. Flow confinement provokes shear banding and viscoelastic instabilities, which dependent on channel's geometry. Micro-designed channels provide extreme fluid confinement and tailored flow-geometry, which are investigate by flow-induced birefringence, micro-particle image velocimetry, and scanning small-angle x-ray/neutron scattering. High shear/extensional rates in the flow through an array of cylinders cause permanent fluid gelation. By decoupling extensional and shear contributions, some of the critical factors, which influence this FIS formation, are reported.