2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Complex Fluids: Polymers and Macromolecules

This session of contributed presentations will focus on the hydrodynamics of complex fluids. Topics of interest include general polymeric fluids and macromolecular solutions.

Co-Chairs

Michelle Calabrese, University of Minnesota

Presentations

03:30 PM

(573a) Pinch-Off Dynamics, Extensional Rheology, Foamability and Processability of Aqueous Solutions of Surfactant-Polymer Mixtures
Chenxian Xu, Jelena Dinic, Vivek Sharma

03:45 PM

(573b) Micro-Extensional Flow Behavior of Aqueous, Fibrillar Methylcellulose Solutions
Athena E. Metaxas, Cari S. Dutcher

04:00 PM

(573c) Effects of Mesophase on Rheological Behavior of Pitch-Based Carbon Fiber Processing
Heedong Yoon, Zachary R. Hinton, Nicolas J. Alvarez

04:15 PM

(573d) Distributions of Molecular Conformation in Flowing Solutions of Semidilute Polymers
Charles Young, Charles Sing

04:30 PM

(573e) Rheological Characterization of Polymer Networks and Heavily Entangled Polymer Melts Using Particle Rheology Simulations
Rajesh Khare, Pouria Nourian, Rafikul Islam, Nestor Valadez-Perez, Tsutomu Indei, Jay D. Schieber

04:45 PM

(573f) Non-Homogeneous Flows of Entangled Polymer Solutions Driven By Flow-Concentration Coupling
Michael C. Burroughs, L. Gary Leal, Matthew Helgeson

05:00 PM

(573g) Microphase Separation in Entangled Polymeric Solutions
Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti, Bamin Khomami, Brian J Edwards

05:15 PM

(573h) The Effect of Harmonic Number on Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS) Testing of Starch Suspensions
Merve Yildirim Erturk, Hazal Turasan, Jozef Kokini

05:30 PM

(573i) Critical-Layer Mechanisms in Elastoinertial Turbulence
Ashwin Shekar, Ryan McMullen, Sung-Ning Wang, Beverley McKeon, Michael Graham

05:45 PM

(573j) Direct Observation of Comb Polymer Dynamics in Semi-Dilute Solutions Using Single Molecule Imaging
Charles M. Schroeder, Shivani F. Patel