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Applying Chaotic Advection To Rheology: An In Situ Structuring Rheometer, Ramaswami Subrahmanian
Applying Chaotic Advection To Rheology: An In Situ Structuring Rheometer, Ramaswami Subrahmanian
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A prototype In Situ Structuring Rheometer (ISSR) was designed and implemented to study changes in shear viscosity of polymer blends and composites while processing them in such a way as to control the evolution of microstructure. The ISSR is based on a regime of fluid mechanics known as chaotic advection, in which simple time-periodic flow fields can cause fluid particles to move chaotically. Chaotic advection is also the basis of Smart Blending, a technology employed to process polymer blends having a variety of morphologies at a fixed composition, and polymer composites in which the additives have been arranged into layered …