Emergent order in rheoscopic swirls

DOI10.1017/S0022112010004441zbMATH Open1225.76296arXiv0910.5330WikidataQ58042833 ScholiaQ58042833MaRDI QIDQ3097641FDOQ3097641

B. Mehlig, Michael Wilkinson, Vlad Bezuglyy

Publication date: 10 November 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the reflection of light by a rheoscopic fluid (a suspension of microscopic rod-like crystals) in a steady two-dimensional flow. This is determined by an order parameter which is a non-oriented vector, obtained by averaging solutions of a nonlinear equation containing the strain rate of the fluid flow. Exact solutions of this equation are obtained from solutions of a linear equation which are analogous to Bloch bands for a one-dimensional Schrodinger equation with a periodic potential. On some contours of the stream function, the order parameter approaches a limit, and on others it depends increasingly sensitively upon position. However, in the long-time limit a local average of the order parameter is a smooth function of position in both cases. We analyse the topology of the order parameter and the structure of the generic zeros of the order parameter field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5330

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zbMATH Keywords

suspensionsgeneral fluid mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Suspensions (76T20)

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