Numerical simulations of emulsions in shear flows

DOI10.1007/S00707-018-2265-5zbMATH Open1412.76069arXiv1807.01841OpenAlexW2963765488MaRDI QIDQ2631490FDOQ2631490

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 15 May 2019

Published in: Acta Mechanica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a modification of a recently developed volume of fluid method for multiphase problems, so that it can be used in conjunction with a fractional step-method and fast Poisson solver, and validate it with standard benchmark problems. We then consider emulsions of two-fluid systems and study their rheology in a plane Couette flow in the limit of vanishing inertia. We examine the dependency of the effective viscosity on the volume-fraction (from 10% to 30%) and the Capillary number (from 0.1 to 0.4) for the case of density and viscosity ratio 1. We show that the effective viscosity decreases with the deformation and the applied shear (shear-thinning) while exhibits a non-monotonic behavior with respect to the volume fraction. We report the appearance of a maximum in the effective viscosity curve and compare the results with those of suspensions of rigid and deformable particles and capsules. We show that the flow in the solvent is mostly a shear flow, while it is mostly rotational in the suspended phase; moreover this behavior tends to reverse as the volume fraction increases. Finally, we evaluate the contributions to the total shear stress of the viscous stresses in the two fluids and of the interfacial force between them.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.01841

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

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