Effect of flow kinematics on extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions
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| author | Koide, Yusuke Ishida, Takato Uneyama, Takashi Masubuchi, Yuichi |
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| contents | We investigate the effect of flow kinematics on the extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions by conducting dissipative particle dynamics simulations under uniaxial, planar, and biaxial extensional flows. At high extension rates, dilute polymer solutions exhibit strain hardening under these flows, while the quantitative behavior depends on the flow type. To elucidate the physical origin of this flow-kinematics dependence, we relate the extensional viscosity to polymer conformation using an analytical expression derived from a single-chain model. The resulting relation allows us to separate the contribution of flow-induced polymer conformational changes and the purely kinematic contribution determined by the structure of the velocity gradient tensor. When polymers remain almost unperturbed by extensional flows, differences in the extensional viscosity are governed primarily by the purely kinematic effects. In contrast, as polymers are stretched, the gyration radius in the extensional direction becomes the dominant factor, and differences in the stretching degree in this direction lead to corresponding variations in the extensional viscosity. |
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| spellingShingle | Effect of flow kinematics on extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions Koide, Yusuke Ishida, Takato Uneyama, Takashi Masubuchi, Yuichi Soft Condensed Matter We investigate the effect of flow kinematics on the extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions by conducting dissipative particle dynamics simulations under uniaxial, planar, and biaxial extensional flows. At high extension rates, dilute polymer solutions exhibit strain hardening under these flows, while the quantitative behavior depends on the flow type. To elucidate the physical origin of this flow-kinematics dependence, we relate the extensional viscosity to polymer conformation using an analytical expression derived from a single-chain model. The resulting relation allows us to separate the contribution of flow-induced polymer conformational changes and the purely kinematic contribution determined by the structure of the velocity gradient tensor. When polymers remain almost unperturbed by extensional flows, differences in the extensional viscosity are governed primarily by the purely kinematic effects. In contrast, as polymers are stretched, the gyration radius in the extensional direction becomes the dominant factor, and differences in the stretching degree in this direction lead to corresponding variations in the extensional viscosity. |
| title | Effect of flow kinematics on extensional viscosity of dilute polymer solutions |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11518 |