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Slippery flows of a Carbopol gel in a microchannel

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The ability to predict and/or control wall slip is a fundamental problem in the hydrodynamics of yield stress fluids, which is poorly understood to date and has important applications in bio-and micro-fluidic systems. Systematic measurements of steady flows of a simple yield stress fluid (Carbopol Ultrez 10) in a plane acrylic micro-channel are used to establish rigorous scaling laws for the wall velocity gradient and the slip velocity. By means of epi-fluorescent microscopy combined with a custom developed Digital Particle Image Velocimetry (DPIV) technique, times series of velocity fields were measured within a wide range of flow rates and three distinct flow regimes were identified: full plug, partial plug and fully yielded. Corresponding to each flow regime, wall velocity gradients and slip velocities were obtained by extrapolating the velocity profiles using a smoothing spline function. By combining the flow field measurements with the macro-rheological measurements, scaling laws for the wall velocity gradient and the slip velocity with the wall shear stress were identified, and compared with results from the literature. Detailed microscopic measurements of the velocity field enabled an assessment of the effectiveness of a chemical treatment of the channel walls meant to suppress wall slip proposed by Metivier and coworkers, Soft Matter 8, 2012.
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hal-02970815 , version 1 (25-11-2020)

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Eliane Younes, Cathy Castelain, Teodor Burghelea, Volfango Bertola. Slippery flows of a Carbopol gel in a microchannel. Physical Review Fluids, 2020, 5 (8), ⟨10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.083303⟩. ⟨hal-02970815⟩
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