Elastic turbulence of aqueous polymer solution in multi-stream micro-channel flow

• Main Authors: Tai, Jiayan, Lam, Yee Cheong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Elastic Turbulence; Microfluidics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90263; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48451
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Viscous liquid flow in micro-channels is typically laminar because of the low Reynolds number constraint. However, by introducing elasticity into the fluids, the flow behavior could change drastically to become turbulent; this elasticity can be realized by dissolving small quantities of polymer mole...