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JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 251, Issue -, Pages 97-106Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2017.12.001
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- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [53466-ND9]
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1604767]
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [53466-ND9]
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1604767]
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We present a tensor constitutive model for predicting stress and flow-induced structure formation in dilute wormlike micellar solutions. The micellar solution is treated as-a dilute suspension of rigid Brownian rods whose length varies dynamically. Consistent with the mechanism presented by Turner and Cates [J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 4, 3719 (1992)], flow-induced alignment of the rods is assumed to promote increase of rod length that corresponds to the formation of flow-induced structures observed in experiments. At very high deformation rate, hydrodynamic stresses causes the rod length to decrease. These mechanisms are implemented in a phenomenological equation governing the evolution of rod length, with the number density of rods appropriately modified to ensure conservation of surfactant mass. The model leads first to an increase in both shear and extensional viscosity as deformation rate increases and then to a decrease at higher rates. If the rate constant for flow induced rod growth is sufficiently large, the model predicts a multivalued relation between stress and deformation rate in both shear and uniaxial extension. Predictions for shear and extensional flow at steady state are in reasonable agreement with experimental results. By design, the model is simple enough to serve as a tractable constitutive relation for computational fluid dynamics studies.
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