Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater
remediation to improve the recovery of trapped nonaqueous fluids. However, applications …

Flow around a cylinder is a classical problem in fluid dynamics and also one of the
benchmarks for testing viscoelastic flows. The problem is of wide relevance to …

Viscoelastic flows through porous media become unstable and chaotic beyond critical flow
conditions, impacting widespread industrial and biological processes such as enhanced oil …

Three non-Newtonian constitutive models are employed to investigate how fluid rheological
properties influence the development of laterally asymmetric flows past confined cylinders …

The flow of viscoelastic polymeric fluids through porous media is common in industrial
applications such as oil recovery and groundwater remediation. Polymeric stresses can lead …

We employ time-resolved flow velocimetry and birefringence imaging methods to study the
flow of a well-characterized shear-banding wormlike micellar solution around a novel glass …

Viscoelastic flow around a cylinder is a model problem representing a wide range of
relevant industrial processing and biological applications. Reducing the cylinder to …

The flow of polymer solutions past solid obstacles or through porous media gives rise to rich
physical phenomena over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Viscoelasticity, in …

We employ a state-of-the-art microfabrication technique (selective laser-induced etching,
SLE) to produce microfluidic cylinder geometries that explore new geometrical regimes …

Molecular conformations of individual polymers during flow through porous media are
directly observed by single-DNA imaging in microfluidics. As the Weissenberg number …