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The dynamic shear-thickening behavior of concentrated colloidal suspensions of fumed silica in polypropylene glycol has been investigated. Dynamic frequency sweeps showed that, for any given solids concentration, the complex viscosity at different imposed ...
One of the key problems in dental biomechanics is the prediction of tooth mobility under functional loads. Understanding tooth displacement due to load is becoming more important as new solutions in dental restorations, prosthodontics and orthodontic treat ...
Experiments on vortex shedding from a cylinder placed in uniform flows of low concentration polymer solutions are reported for Reynolds numbers from 50 to 150. The fluids used were aqueous solutions of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and rheological characterizat ...
In order to better understand the sources of numerical instabilities occurring in the simulation of time-dependent flows of viscoelastic fluids at high Weissenberg numbers, we have used various types of linear stability analyses. In complement to the limit ...
A methodology is presented for the formulation of an algebraic extra-stress model derivable from the Oldroyd-B constitutive equation for a viscoelastic fluid. An implicit algebraic tensor relation is derived directly from the differential constitutive rela ...
Actually little is known on the physical processes involved in avalanches or debris flows. We tackle this difficult issue by carrying out idealized experiments, where we focus on the motion of highly time-dependent flows of non-Newtonian fluids. The object ...
Two:dimensional time-dependent calculations for a molecular model of finite extensibility in the journal-bearing geometry are presented. The flow is considered to be incompressible and isothermal. The momentum conservation equation is integrated using a ti ...