The Rheology of Worm-like Micellar Fluids
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چکیده
This article reviews what has been published on the rheology of worm-like micellar fluids (WLMFs). It is written primarily for those interested in continuum (non-Newtonian fluid) mechanics: it covers the bulk rheological behaviour of typical WLMFs and rheological equations of state (REoS) that reflect this bulk behaviour; it also covers molecular dynamics and Brownian dynamics models that aim to predict observed behaviour. It is concluded that experimental measurements have been restricted to a limited range of flow kinematics only, and so agreement with particular (suitably parametrised) theoretical models for REoS has not been conclusively validated. It also raises the question of whether WLMFs can be treated as “simple fluids” once shear banding and rheological chaos ensue, as have been observed.
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