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 …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) can be considered as model colloidal rods and have practical
applications in the formation of soft materials with tailored anisotropy. Here, two contrasting …

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

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 …

Viscoelastic fluids flowing through porous media have been shown to provide improvements
in oil displacement efficiency resulting from a favorable mobility ratio. In this study, we …

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 …

Wormlike micellar (WLM) solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil and gas recovery
applications in porous rock beds where complex microscopic geometries result in mixed …