Nonequilibrium thermodynamic investigation of the shear banding phenomenon in entangled polyacrylamide solutions

缠结聚丙烯酰胺溶液中剪切带现象的非平衡热力学研究

• 批准号: 402813701
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Natalie Germann
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung Physik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/402813701?language=en
• 关键词: Nonequilibrium; thermodynamic; investigation; shear; banding

When soft materials (complex fluids) are subject to strong shear deformations, these materials can develop localized bands with different shear rates and/or concentrations, known as shear bands. It has been hypothesized that shear banding is caused in polymeric solutions by diffusion. Recently, we developed a thermodynamic polymer model taking into account Fickian diffusion and stress-induced migration. In this model, it is assumed that local gradients in concentration and stress generate a nontrivial velocity difference between the polymeric constituents and the solvent. The advantage of this model is that the differential velocity is treated as state variable. The extra boundary conditions arising from the presence of derivative diffusive terms can be directly imposed with respect to this variable. Microstructural information is therefore not anymore required but is rather an outcome of the model. The goal of this project is to verify the above-mentioned hypothesis using a combined numerical and experimental approach. The model will be systematically studied in two benchmark flows (planar channel and contraction flows). The computations will be validated by performing a comparison with velocimetry, fluorescence snapshot, and neutron scattering experiments. The development of reliable polymer models is of importance to plastics manufacturing and other sectors like the food and pharmaceutical industries as their future application will allow to better design the textural properties of products and industrial flow processes.

当软材料（复杂的流体）受到较强的剪切变形时，这些材料可以开发具有不同剪切速率和/或浓度的局部带，称为剪切带。已经假设剪切带是通过扩散在聚合物溶液中引起的。最近，我们考虑了Fickian扩散和应力诱导的迁移，开发了一种热力学聚合物模型。在该模型中，假定浓度和应力的局部梯度在聚合物成分和溶剂之间产生非平凡的速度差异。该模型的优点是差速度被视为状态变量。可以直接就此变量施加衍生扩散项而产生的额外边界条件。因此，微观结构信息不再需要，而是模型的结果。该项目的目的是使用合并的数值和实验方法来验证上述假设。该模型将在两个基准流（平面通道和收缩流）中系统地研究。这些计算将通过与速度计，荧光快照和中子散射实验进行比较来验证。可靠的聚合物模型的开发对于塑料制造和其他领域（如食品和制药行业）非常重要，因为其未来的应用将允许更好地设计产品和工业流程流程的质地性能。