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Non‐Newtonian phenomena in simple fluids

JAN 01, 1984
Computer simulations indicate that simple liquids can display a surprising range of exotic nonequilibrium phenomena, more commonly seen in systems of macromolecules.
Denis J. Evans
Howard J. M. Hanley
Siegfried Hess

Almost a hundred years ago, Osborne Reynolds carried out a simple experiment. He filled a leather bag with marbles, topped it with water and then twisted it, thereby inducing a shear. The water level drops because the close packing of the marbles is disrupted as layers of marbles slide over each other during the twisting motion; as a result the marbles are further apart on average, creating space that the water has to fill.

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References

  1. 1. O. Reynolds, Phil. Mag. 20, 469 (1885).https://doi.org/PHMAA4

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  4. 4. See, for example, J. Kestin, A Course in Thermodynamics, Blaisdell, Waltham, Mass. (1966), chapter 8.

  5. 5. C. A. Truesdell, Rheology Volume 1, Astarita, G. Marrucci, L. Nicolais, eds., Plenum, New York, (1980) page 1.

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More about the Authors

Denis J. Evans. Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Howard J. M. Hanley. National Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

Siegfried Hess. Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany.

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