Pinch-off in the presence of surface-active polymers
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en
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EPL - Europhysics Letters. 2011, vol. 95, n° 5, p. 54003
European Physical Society/EDP Sciences/Società Italiana di Fisica/IOP Publishing
Résumé en anglais
The rupture of fluid necks in a surrounding liquid in the presence of surface-active polymers shows a variety of changes with respect to the pure-fluid case. The role of the surface rheology due solely to the presence of ...Lire la suite >
The rupture of fluid necks in a surrounding liquid in the presence of surface-active polymers shows a variety of changes with respect to the pure-fluid case. The role of the surface rheology due solely to the presence of such agents at the surface is uncovered by studying how the fluid neck radius approaches zero at pinch-off. The thinning dynamics of the neck turn out to be exponential in time. The thinning rate extracted from this dynamics is related to the surface viscosity of the polymer layer coating the interface and estimates of this quantity are presented.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
Surface-tension-driven instability
Viscous and viscoelastic instabilities
Polymers and polymer solutions
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