Response of shear stress to ac electric fields under steady shear flow in a droplet-dispersed phase

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Dec;80(6 Pt 1):061803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.061803. Epub 2009 Dec 30.

Abstract

We have measured the response of shear stress to ac electric fields under steady shear flow in the droplet-dispersed phase of an immiscible polymer blend. A characteristic mode was found under steady shear flow, the relaxation frequency of which increased with increasing the shear rate. In the frequency dispersion, a scaling relation derived from dimensional analysis was confirmed to hold. The origin of the mode was investigated on the basis of the Maffettone-Minale (MM) model, in which the droplet shape is described by a second-rank tensor. The frequency dispersion of the response was also calculated using a modified MM model.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Phase Transition / radiation effects
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Polymers / radiation effects*
  • Shear Strength / radiation effects
  • Solutions / chemistry*
  • Solutions / radiation effects*

Substances

  • Polymers
  • Solutions