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A general feature of glassy materials is a strong nonlinear flow rule relating stress and strain. This feature is no well-documented and poorly understood. Many have tried to understand the glass transition by studying the dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming materials, but how these heterogeneities affect flow remains unclear. Using a local velocity measurement technique, the authors study the local flow of a film of confined glassy material. | A general feature of glassy materials is a strong nonlinear flow rule relating stress and strain. This feature is no well-documented and poorly understood. Many have tried to understand the glass transition by studying the dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming materials, but how these heterogeneities affect flow remains unclear. Using a local velocity measurement technique, the authors study the local flow of a film of confined glassy material. | ||
| − | The authors test flow in two main geometries: shear planar flow in a wide gap Couette cell, and pressure driven planar flow | + | The authors test flow in two main geometries: shear planar flow in a wide gap Couette cell, and pressure driven planar flow in a narrow microchannel (tens of hundreds micrometers in width). The substance tested was an emulsion of silicone droplets (6.5um in diameter) in a glycerine-water mixture. The local flow curves, which relate the local shear stress <math>\sigma</math> to the local shear rate <math>\dor{\gamma}</math>, are obtained from the measured velocity profiles of both geometries. Figure 1 shows the results for the wide-gap Couette cell, and Figure 2 shows the results for the narrow microchannel. Evidently, the flow curve is highly dependent on the geometry. In the wide-gap case, the curve follows the Herschel-Bulkley model. |
Revision as of 04:23, 6 December 2009
Reference
Goyon, J., Colin, A., Ovarlez, G., Ajdari, A., Bocquet, L., Nature 454 (2008).
Keywords
spatial cooperativity, glass, velocity profile, shear stress, shear strain, Couette cell
Summary
A general feature of glassy materials is a strong nonlinear flow rule relating stress and strain. This feature is no well-documented and poorly understood. Many have tried to understand the glass transition by studying the dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming materials, but how these heterogeneities affect flow remains unclear. Using a local velocity measurement technique, the authors study the local flow of a film of confined glassy material.
The authors test flow in two main geometries: shear planar flow in a wide gap Couette cell, and pressure driven planar flow in a narrow microchannel (tens of hundreds micrometers in width). The substance tested was an emulsion of silicone droplets (6.5um in diameter) in a glycerine-water mixture. The local flow curves, which relate the local shear stress <math>\sigma</math> to the local shear rate <math>\dor{\gamma}</math>, are obtained from the measured velocity profiles of both geometries. Figure 1 shows the results for the wide-gap Couette cell, and Figure 2 shows the results for the narrow microchannel. Evidently, the flow curve is highly dependent on the geometry. In the wide-gap case, the curve follows the Herschel-Bulkley model.
