Investigating the stability of viscoelastic stagnation flows in T-shaped microchannels

DOI10.1016/j.jnnfm.2009.06.002zbMath1274.76219WikidataQ63432149 ScholiaQ63432149MaRDI QIDQ377171

P. C. Sousa, Manuel A. Alves, Mónica S. N. Oliveira, Gareth H. McKinley, Johannes Soulages

Publication date: 6 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/41373/

zbMATH Keywords

particle image velocimetry; microfluidics; flow instability; polyethylene oxide (PEO); simplified Phan-Thien-Tanner model; symmetry-breaking bifurcation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-05: Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76A10: Viscoelastic fluids

76E09: Stability and instability of nonparallel flows in hydrodynamic stability

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