What is Rheological Chaos?
What is Rheological Chaos?
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 22nd October 2001
- Speaker: Mike Cates (Formerly School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Recent experiments on a variety of viscoelastic fluids reveal cases in which the stress response to a steady shear flow is unsteady, or vice versa. The simplest type of instability gives a spontaneously oscillatory response to steady driving; however, chaotic behaviour has been seen instead in some systems. It remains a theoretical challenge to identify the physical mechanisms for such rheological instabilities and produce minimal models of the oscillatory and/or chaotic regime; one or two first attempts will be outlined.
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