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JournalISSN: 0035-4511

Rheologica Acta 

Springer Science+Business Media
About: Rheologica Acta is an academic journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Viscoelasticity & Shear rate. It has an ISSN identifier of 0035-4511. Over the lifetime, 4462 publications have been published receiving 110195 citations. The journal is also known as: Kolloid-Zeitschrift & Zeitschrift fuer Polymere, Ergaenzungsheft.


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TL;DR: In this article, the average complex shear modulus of the medium accounts for the mechanical interactions between inclusions by a self consistent treatment similar to the Lorentz sphere method in electricity.
Abstract: Emulsions of incompressible viscoelastic materials are considered, in which the addition of an interfacial agent causes the interfacial tension to depend on shear deformation and variation of area. The average complex shear modulus of the medium accounts for the mechanical interactions between inclusions by a self consistent treatment similar to the Lorentz sphere method in electricity. The resulting expression of the average modulus includes as special cases the Kerner formula for incompressible elastic materials and the Oldroyd expression of the complex viscosity of emulsions of Newtonian liquids in time-dependent flow.

895 citations

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Ronald G. Larson1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the latest developments as well as earlier work in this area, organized into the following categories: Taylor-Couette flows, instabilities in cone and plate-and-plate flows, parallel shear flows, extrudate distortions and fracture, Instabilities in shear flow with interfaces, extensional flows, and thermohydrodynamic instabilities.
Abstract: Viscoelastic instabilities are of practical importance, and are the subject of growing interest. Reviewed here are the fresh developments as well as earlier work in this area, organized into the following categories: instabilities in Taylor-Couette flows, instabilities in cone-and-plate and plate-and-plate flows, instabilities in parallel shear flows, extrudate distortions and fracture, instabilities in shear flows with interfaces, instabilities in extensional flows, instabilities in multidimensional flows, and thermohydrodynamic instabilities. Emphasized in the review are comparisons between theory and experiment and suggested directions for future work.

883 citations

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Thomas G. Mason1
TL;DR: In this paper, the linear viscoelastic shear moduli of complex fluids were obtained from the time-dependent mean square displacement,, of thermally-driven colloidal spheres suspended in the fluid using a generalized Stokes-Einstein (GSE) equation.
Abstract: We obtain the linear viscoelastic shear moduli of complex fluids from the time-dependent mean square displacement, , of thermally-driven colloidal spheres suspended in the fluid using a generalized Stokes–Einstein (GSE) equation. Different representations of the GSE equation can be used to obtain the viscoelastic spectrum, G˜(s), in the Laplace frequency domain, the complex shear modulus, G*(ω), in the Fourier frequency domain, and the stress relaxation modulus, Gr(t), in the time domain. Because trapezoid integration (s domain) or the Fast Fourier Transform (ω domain) of known only over a finite temporal interval can lead to errors which result in unphysical behavior of the moduli near the frequency extremes, we estimate the transforms algebraically by describing as a local power law. If the logarithmic slope of can be accurately determined, these estimates generally perform well at the frequency extremes.

634 citations

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TL;DR: The linear viscoelastic and viscometric functions have been determined for solutions of wellcharacterized monodisperse linear and star-branched polystyrenes and for commercial, polydisperse polystyrene as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The linear viscoelastic and viscometric functions have been determined for solutions of wellcharacterized monodisperse linear and star-branched polystyrenes and for commercial, polydisperse polystyrene. The value of the product c\(\bar M_w \) for these solutions was large and was obtained by using both high and low\(\bar M_w \)

586 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the simple Cross model is shown to be a useful empiricism for many non-Newtonian fluids, including those which have hitherto been thought to possess a yield stress.
Abstract: New experimental data obtained from constant stress rheometers are used to show that the yield stress concept is an idealization, and that, given accurate measurements, no yield stress exists. The simple Cross model is shown to be a useful empiricism for many non-Newtonian fluids, including those which have hitherto been thought to possess a yield stress.

582 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
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202322
202263
202166
202069
201956
201863