An experimental study was conducted to investigate the structural stability of ethylene glycol-based titanium dioxide nanoparticle suspensions (nanofluids) prepared by two-step method. The effects of particle concentration, fluid temperature, shear rate and shear duration were examined. Particle size and thermal conductivity measurements in quiescent state indicated the existence of aggregates ...

We study the dependence of viscosity of ethanol on shear rate using constant volume and constant pressure nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, with the emphasis of the interrelationship between breaking, stability, and alignment of hydrogen bonds and shear thinning at high shear rates. We find that although the majority of hydrogen bond breakings occur at low shear rates, we do not ob...

A numerical investigation of the effects of nanosecond barrier discharge on the stability of a two-dimensional free shear layer is performed. The computations are carried out using a compressible Navier-Stokes algorithm coupled with a thermodynamic model of the discharge. The results show that significant increases in the shear layer’s momentum thickness and Reynolds stresses occur due to actua...

The stability of one liquid thread immersed in a fluid in a shear field is considered by linear stability analysis. A constant shear stress is imposed far away from the thread. The shear flow tends to deform and elongate the thread. The stability of the thread is characterized by the growth rate of a random perturbation. The equation for the growth rate leads to an eigenvalue problem with the w...

A 1-D and 2-D cylindrical flow stability is investigated in this paper. A typical velocity profile in a shear layer with infection point is studied first. The fluid motion is decomposed to two parts: the rotational part and shear part. Linear stability analysis shows the rotational part (like rigid body) is stable but the shear part is unstable. Of course, the shear layer with inflection point ...

Metallic glasses (MGs) are notorious for the poor macroscopic ductility and to overcome the weakness various intrinsic and extrinsic strategies have been proposed in past decades. Among them, the metal coating is regarded as a flexible and facile approach, yet the physical origin is poorly understood due to the complex nature of shear banding process. Here, we studied the origin of ductile enha...

Internal stability of isotropic nonlinear elastic materials under homogeneous deformation is studied. Results provide new insight into various intrinsic stability measures, first proposed elsewhere, for generic nonlinear elastic solids. Three intrinsic stability criteria involving three different tangent elastic stiffness matrices are considered, corresponding to respective increments in strain...

The stability of arbitrary toroidal magnetohydrostatic equilibria is investigated near the limit of a vacuum magnetic field. Nonsingular expansions in powers of ß ~ p/B2 are considered to all orders. Order by order minimization of the energy variaiton shows that any orders are positive semidefinite in the nullspace of all lower orders if either the vacuum field has shear or (for an identically ...

Recent experiments show that shear-banded flows of semidilute wormlike micelles in Taylor-Couette geometry exhibit a flow instability in the form of Taylor-like vortices. Here we perform the nonaxisymmetric linear stability analysis of the diffusive Johnson-Segalman model of shear banding and show that the nature of this instability depends on the applied shear rate. For the experimentally rele...