Large amplitude oscillatory shear flow: Microstructural assessment of polymeric systems

M Kamkar, R Salehiyan, TB Goudoulas… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the first publications of large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) responses of
polymeric materials in the 1960s, different approaches have been developed to express …

Carboxymethyl chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol double network hydrogels prepared by freeze-thawing and calcium chloride cross-linking for efficient dye adsorption

K Zhang, D Li, Y Wang, L Wang - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The discharge of dye wastewater resulting from rapid industrial development has become a
serious environmental concern. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid dynamics and epidemiology: Seasonality and transmission dynamics

T Dbouk, D Drikakis - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Epidemic models do not account for the effects of climate conditions on the transmission
dynamics of viruses. This study presents the vital relationship between weather seasonality …

Steady elongational flow from rotarance theory

MC Pak, AJ Giacomin, MA Kanso - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The physics of macromolecular orientation has been used to explain the elasticity of
polymeric liquids. Specifically, by first sculpting a rigid bead–rod likeness of the …

[HTML][HTML] Coronavirus rotational diffusivity

MA Kanso, JH Piette, JA Hanna, AJ Giacomin - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Just 11 weeks after the confirmation of first infection, one team had already discovered and
published [D. Wrapp et al.,“Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion …

Ongoing relevance of Oldroyd 8-constant fluids

AJ Giacomin, C Saengow - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - Elsevier
Of the many seminal contributions by Oldroyd to science and engineering, his weightiest
embodies his 1958 general vision of the expected and allowable constitutive behaviors of …

General rigid bead-rod theory for steady-shear flow

AJ Giacomin, SJ Coombs, MC Pak, KI Kim - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
General rigid bead-rod theory yields uniquely the relation between macromolecular
architecture and complex viscosity. For this, it relies on the analytical solution of the general …

Large-amplitude oscillatory shear flow from general rigid bead-rod theory

MC Pak, AJ Giacomin, MA Kanso, HC Pak - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Oscillatory shear flow, performed at small-amplitude, interrogates polymeric liquids in their
equilibrium states. The fluid responds in sinusoidal shear stress waves whose amplitude …

Hydrodynamic interaction and complex viscosity of multi-bead rods

MA Kanso, MC Pak, KI Kim, SJ Coombs… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
One good way to explain the elasticity of a polymeric liquid is to just consider the orientation
distribution of the macromolecules. When exploring how macromolecular architecture affects …

[HTML][HTML] Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity

MA Kanso, V Chaurasia, E Fried, AJ Giacomin - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Recently, the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension was calculated,
from first principles, using general rigid bead-rod theory [MA Kanso, Phys. Fluids 32, 113101 …