We study the retraction and pinch-off of a liquid filament and the formation of drops by using an energetic variational phase field model, which describes the motion of mixtures of two incompressible fluids. An efficient and accurate numerical scheme is presented and implemented for the coupled nonlinear systems of Navier–Stokes type linear momentum equations and volume preserving Allen–Cahn ty...

A rheological law based on the concept of cooperatively sheared flow zones is presented, in which the effective thermodynamic state variable controlling flow is identified to be the isoconfigurational shear modulus of the liquid. The law captures Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian viscosity data for glass-forming metallic liquids over a broad range of fragility. Acoustic measurements on specime...

Systematic asymptotic methods are used to formulate a model for the extensional flow of a thin sheet of nematic liquid crystal. With no external body forces applied, the model is found to be equivalent to the socalled Trouton model for Newtonian sheets (and fibers), albeit with a modified “Trouton ratio”. However, with a symmetry-breaking electric field gradient applied, behavior deviates from ...

2.1 Abstract A rheological law based on the concept of cooperatively sheared flow zones is presented, in which the effective thermodynamic state variable controlling flow is identified to be the isoconfigurational shear modulus of the liquid. The law captures Newtonian as well as non-Newtonian viscosity data for glass-forming metallic liquids over a broad range of fragility. Acoustic measuremen...

A simple qualitative model has been presented to describe shear rheological behavior of the twist–bend nematic liquid crystals (N TB ). It found that at relatively low rate ( $$\dot {\gamma } \leqslant {{\dot }}_{{c1}}}$$ ) stress tensor σ created by this strain, scales as $$\sigma \propto }}^{{1/2}}}$$ . Thus, effective viscosity decreases with $$\eta }}^{{ - 1/2}}}$$ manifesting so-called she...

Mesophase pitches are multicomponent discotic nematic liquid crystals (DNLCs), whose characteristic molecular weight is intermediate between low molar mass and polymeric nematic liquid crystals. The distinguishing features of the mechanical behavior can be summarized by stating that LC materials exhibit anisotropic, non-linear, viscoelastic behaviour quite distinct from Newtonian viscous materi...

We show that bent-core liquid crystalline materials exhibit non-Newtonian flow in their optically isotropic liquid phase. We conjecture that this behavior is due to the existence of nanostructured, fluctuating clusters composed of a few smectic-like layers. Shear alignment of these clusters explains the shear thinning observed in bent-core liquid crystals having either a nematic phase or nonmod...

We have compared the formation of oil drops in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in a T-junction microfluidic device. As Newtonian fluids, we used aqueous solutions of glycerol, while as non-Newtonian fluids we prepared aqueous solutions of xanthan, a stiff rod-like polysaccharide, which exhibit strong shear-thinning effects. In the squeezing regime, the formation of oil droplets in glycerol s...