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Paulo E. Arratia

Researcher at University of Pennsylvania

Publications -  143
Citations -  5551

Paulo E. Arratia is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Newtonian fluid & Reynolds number. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 131 publications receiving 4633 citations. Previous affiliations of Paulo E. Arratia include Haverford College & Vanderbilt University.

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Elastic Instabilities of Polymer Solutions in Cross-Channel Flow

TL;DR: Tracer and particle-tracking experiments show that molecular stretching produces two flow instabilities: one in which the velocity field becomes strongly asymmetric, and a second in which it fluctuates nonperiodically in time.
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Rheology of human blood plasma: viscoelastic versus Newtonian behavior.

TL;DR: This work finds a viscoelastic behavior of blood plasma in the pure extensional flow of a capillary breakup rheometer, and shows that the vis coelastic properties of plasma should not be ignored in future studies on blood flow.
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Undulatory Swimming in Viscoelastic Fluids

TL;DR: It is found that fluid elasticity hinders self-propulsion, which leads to up to 35% slower propulsion in viscoelastic fluids.
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Nonlinear elastic instability in channel flows at low Reynolds numbers.

TL;DR: Experimental evidence that flows of viscoelastic polymer solutions in geometries such as a straight pipe or channel can be nonlinearly unstable and can exhibit a subcritical bifurcation and results suggest that any flow of polymer solutions becomes unstable at sufficiently high flow rates.