Speed of a swimming sheet in Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids

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作者
Dasgupta, Moumita [1 ]
Liu, Bin [2 ]
Fu, Henry C. [2 ,3 ]
Berhanu, Michael [1 ,4 ]
Breuer, Kenneth S. [2 ]
Powers, Thomas R. [2 ,5 ]
Kudrolli, Arshad [1 ]
机构
[1] Clark Univ, Dept Phys, Worcester, MA 01610 USA
[2] Brown Univ, Sch Engn, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[3] Univ Nevada, Dept Mech Engn, Reno, NV 89509 USA
[4] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR 7057, F-75013 Paris, France
[5] Brown Univ, Dept Phys, Providence, RI 02912 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2013年 / 87卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
RELAXATION; MODEL;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.87.013015
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We measure the swimming speed of a cylindrical version of Taylor's swimming sheet in viscoelastic fluids, and find that depending on the rheology, the speed can either increase or decrease relative to the speed in a Newtonian viscous fluid. The swimming stroke of the sheet is a prescribed propagating wave that travels along the sheet in the azimuthal direction. The measurements are performed with the sheet immersed in a fluid inside a cylindrical tank under torque-free conditions. Swimming speeds in the Newtonian case are found to be consistent with calculations using the Stokes equation. A faster swimming speed is found in a viscoelastic fluid that has a viscosity independent of shear rate. By contrast, a slower swimming speed is found with more complex shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids which have multiple relaxation time scales as well. These results are compared with calculations with Oldroyd-B fluids which find a decreasing swimming speed with Deborah number given by the product of the fluid elastic relaxation time scale and the driving frequency. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.87.013015
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