Elastic instabilities in planar elongational flow of monodisperse polymer solutions

We investigate purely elastic flow instabilities in the almost ideal planar stagnation point elongational flow field generated by a microfluidic optimized-shape cross-slot extensional rheometer (OSCER). We use time-resolved flow velocimetry and full-field birefringence microscopy to study the behavi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haward, Simon J., Shen, Amy Q., McKinley, Gareth H
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108525
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-2779