Probing shear-banding transitions of the VCM model for entangled wormlike micellar solutions using large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) deformations》.pdf

J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 165 (2010) 1462–1472 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/jnnfm Probing shear-banding transitions of the VCM model for entangled wormlike micellar solutions using large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) deformations Lin Zhou a,∗ , L.Pamela Cook b , Gareth H. McKinley c a Department of Mathematics, New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States b Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States c Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We explore the use of large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS) deformation to probe the dynamics of Received 30 March 2009 shear-banding in soft entangled materials, primarily wormlike micellar solutions which are prone to Received in revised form 30 June 2010 breakage and disentanglement under strong deformations. The state of stress in these complex fluids Accepted 26 July 2010 is described by a class of viscoelastic constitutive models which capture the key linear and nonlinear rheological features of wormlike micellar solutions, including the breakage and reforming of an entangled network. At a frequency-dependent critical strain, the imposed deformation field localizes to form a