2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Non-Newtonian Flows

This session will focus on hydrodynamic phenomena in non-Newtonian fluids, including macroscopic flows and rheology.

Chair

Anne M. Grillet, Sandia National Laboratories

Co-Chair

Satish Kumar, University of Minnesota

Presentations

12:30 PM

(247a) Computational Studies of the Motion of a Nematic Lcp in a Simple Shear Device

D. Harley Klein, Hector Ceniceros, Carlos Garcia-Cervera, L. Gary Leal

12:45 PM

(247b) Structure and Rheology of Shear-Banding Wormlike Micellar Solutions

Norman Wagner, Florian Nettesheim, Lionel Porcar, Eric W. Kaler

01:00 PM

(247c) Rheo-Optics of Equilibrium Polymer Solutions: Wormlike Micelles in Planar Elongation

Jai A. Pathak, Steven D. Hudson

01:15 PM

(247d) Extensional Rheometry on a Chip: Flows of Dilute Polymer Solutions in Microfluidic Contractions

Gareth H. McKinley, Lucy Rodd, Mónica S. N. Oliveira, Justin J. Cooper-White

01:30 PM

(247e) Low-Dimensional Models for Exact Coherent Structures in Viscoelastic Shear Flows

Anshuman Roy, Alexander Morozov, Wim Van Saarloos, Ronald Larson

01:45 PM

(247f) Viscoelastic Nonlinear Traveling Waves and Drag Reduction in Plane Poiseuille Flow

Wei Li, Michael D. Graham

02:00 PM

(247g) Effect of Flexibility on the Shear-Induced Migration of Short Polymers in Parabolic Channel Flow

David Saintillan, Eric Shaqfeh, Eric Darve

02:15 PM

(247h) Elastic Instabilities of Polymeric Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow

Paulo E. Arratia, Jerry P. Gollub

02:30 PM

(247i) Dynamics of Polymeric Solutions in Prototypical Processing Geometries: a Multiscale Simulation Approach

Anantha P. Koppol, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Bamin Khomami

02:45 PM

(247j) Comprehensive Modeling of Nonisothermal Polymer Jets in Melt Electrospinning

Eduard Zhmayev, Huajun Zhou, Yong Joo