413 Complex Fluids

Wednesday, October 31, 2012: 8:30 AM
409 (Convention Center )
Description:
This session of contributed presentations will focus on the hydrodynamics of complex fluids. Topics of interest include the effects of non-Newtonian rheology on flow, flow-induced microstructure, viscoelasticity, and general polymeric, surfactant-laden, and suspension flows.

Sponsor:
Fluid Mechanics

Co-chairs:
Sibani L. Biswal
Email: biswal@rice.edu

Matthew E. Helgeson
Email: helgeson@engineering.ucsb.edu


8:30 AM
(413a) Computer Simulation of Vesicles and Vesicle Suspensions in Flow
Eric S.G. Shaqfeh

9:00 AM
(413b) Microstructural Origins of Two-Step Yielding and Strain-Induced Strengthening in Dilute Colloidal Gels
Hubert K. Chan and Ali Mohraz

9:15 AM
(413c) Structure, Rheology and Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Micelle-Nanoparticle Plasmonic Nanogels: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Tao Cong, Georo Zhou, Abhinanden Sambasivam and Radhakrishna Sureshkumar

9:30 AM
(413d) Extracting Fundamental Materials Properties From Rheological Measurements
Folarin Latinwo and Charles M. Schroeder

9:45 AM
(413e) Rinsing Flows: Exploiting Viscoelastic Liquids
Travis W. Walker, Tienyi Theresa Hsu, Curtis W. Frank and Gerald G. Fuller

10:00 AM
(413f) X-Ray Scattering Investigation of Structural Relaxation in an Ordered Block Copolymer Melt in Uniaxial Extensional Flow
Erica McCready and Wesley Burghardt

10:15 AM
(413g) Capillary Break-up, Gelation and Extensional Rheology of Hydrophobically Modified Cellulose Ether Solutions
Vivek Sharma, Simon Haward, Asa Soderlund, Phil Threlfall-Holmes and Gareth H. McKinley

10:30 AM
(413h) Enhancement of Polymer Globule Formation by Shear Flow
Rangarajan Radhakrishnan and Patrick T. Underhill

10:45 AM
(413i) Modeling Dilute and Semi-Dilute Flexible Polymer Solutions in Extensionally-Dominated Flows
Antony N. Beris and Kostas D. Housiadas
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