Surfactant molecules can self-assemble into various morphologies under proper combinations of ionic strength, temperature, and flow conditions. At equilibrium, wormlike micelles can transition from entangled to branched and multiconnected structures with increasing salt concentration. Under certain flow conditions, micellar structural transitions follow different trajectories. In this work, we ...

the effect of four types of shortening including a commercially vegetable oil (as control), palm olein (po), palm stearin (ps), and a blend of the latter two oils with rapeseed oil (bf) on the rheological properties of cookie dough was determined by using dynamic oscillatory measurement testing. all of the obtained dough treatments showed weak liquid viscoelastic behavior. their storage (g ) an...

There are many kinds of deformable objects in our living life. Some of them demonstrate rheological behaviors, such as human tissues, food, and clay. Comparing with elastic or viscoelastic objects, rheological objects have not been studied intensively. Especially, effective methods for parameter identification have not been established until now. In this paper, we summarize two FE dynamic model...

We explore the contact problem of a flat-end indenter penetrating intermittently a generalized viscoelastic surface, containing multiple characteristic times. This problem is especially relevant for nanoprobing of viscoelastic surfaces with the highly popular tapping-mode AFM imaging technique. By focusing on the material perspective and employing a rigorous rheological approach, we deliver ana...

BACKGROUND The viscoelastic properties of cells have been investigated by a variety of techniques. However, the experimental data reported in literature for viscoelastic moduli differ by up to three orders of magnitude. This has been attributed to differences in techniques and models for cell response as well as to the natural variability of cells. RESULTS In this work we develop and apply a ...

In the characterization of elastic properties of tissue using dynamic optical coherence elastography, shear/surface waves are propagated and tracked in order to estimate speed and Young's modulus. However, for dispersive tissues, the displacement pulse is highly damped and distorted during propagation, diminishing the e®ectiveness of peak tracking approaches, and leading to biased estimates of ...

Polymer solutions and melts are viscoelastic; they exhibit fluidlike behavior in steady shear, but the initial response to an imposed deformation involves a material-dependent transient that may be many orders of magnitude longer than time scales associated with instrument inertia. Intrinsic material time scales can be identified with the dynamics of the macro­ molecular chains. Shaping process...

Viscoelastic materials containing bubbles or drops are encountered in numerous application fields, and presently the object of much interest. The motion these matrices can be significantly different than Newtonian fluids. This review is restricted to case quiescent fluids (or small Reynolds number) drops, that not appreciably deformed during their motion. It includes a brief description propert...

background: laser-tissue interaction on low-level laser therapy (lllt) has widespread medical applications (e.g., improved wound healing). the tensile strength of radiated tissue by lllt is known to be increased mainly because of cross collagen bands developed after radiation. objective: in this work, we studied the instantaneous effect of radiation of polarized laser beam on the viscoelastic t...

this paper presents a numerical simulation of developing flow and heat transfer of a viscoelastic fluid in a rectangular duct. in fully developed flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a non-circular duct, secondary flows normal to the flow direction are expected to enhance the rate of heat and mass transfer. on the other hand, properties such as viscosity, thermal conductivity, specific heat and rela...