Purely-elastic flow instabilities in a microfluidic cross-slot geometry

In this work we demonstrate numerically, using a 3D finite-volume method, that viscoelastic flow in a microfluidic cross-slot geometry can lead to flow asymmetries under perfectly symmetric flow conditions. This supercritical instability is predicted using the upper-convected Maxwell model under cre...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Robert J. Poole (author)
Outros Autores: Manuel A. Alves (author), Alexandre P. Afonso (author), Fernando T. Pinho (author), Paulo J. Oliveira (author)
Formato: book
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2007
Texto completo:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/91475
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/91475