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Chapter
8
Polymeric Liquids
This
Jeffreys modep
contains three constants: the zero shear rate viscosity and two time
constants (the constant
A,
is called the
retardation time).
One could clearly add terms containing second, third, and higher derivatives of
the
stress and rate-of-strain tensors with appropriate multiplicative constants, to get a
still
more general linear relation among the stress and rate-of-strain tensors. This gives
greater flexibility in fitting experimental data.
The Generalized Maxwell Model
Another way of generalizing Maxwell's original idea is to "superpose" equations of
the
form of Eq. 8.4-3 and write the
generalized Maxwell model
as
m
d
~(t)
=
~~(t) where
TL
+
A*
;ji
h
=
-7ky
(8.4-5/61
k=
1
in which there are many relaxation times
A,
(with
A,
r
A,
2
A,.
.
.)
and many constants
qk
with dimensions of viscosity. Much is known about the constants in this model from
polymer molecular theories and the extensive experiments that have been done on poly-
meric liq~ids.~
The total number of parameters can be reduced to three by using the following
em-
pirical
expression^:^
in which
7,
is the zero shear rate viscosity,
A
is
a time constant, and
a
is a dimensionless
constant (usually between
1.5
and 4).
Since Eq. 8.4-6 is a linear differential equation, it can be integrated analytically,
with
the condition that the fluid is at rest at
t
=
-
w.
Then when the various
lk
are summed
according to Eq. 8.4-5, we get the integral form of the generalized Maxwell model:
In this form, the "fading memory" idea is clearly present: the stress at time
t
depends
on
the velocity gradients at all past times t', but, because of the exponentials in the inte-
grand, greatest weight is given to times t' that are near
t;
that is, the fluid "memory"
is
better for recent times than for more remote times in the past. The quantity within braces
{
1
is called the
relaxation modulus
of the fluid and is denoted by
G(t
-
t').
The integral ex-
This model was suggested by
H.
Jeffreys,
The Earth,
Cambridge University Press, 1st edition
(1924), and 2nd edition (1929), p. 265, to describe the propagation of waves in the earth's mantle. The
parameters in this model have been related to the structure of suspensions and emulsions by
H.
Frohlich
and
R.
Sack,
Proc. Roy. Soc.,
A185,415430
(1946)
and by J.
G.
Oldroyd,
Proc. Roy. Soc.,
AZ18,122-132
(19531, respectively. Another interpretation of
Eq.
8.4-4 is to regard
it
as the sum of a Newtonian solvent
contribution
(s)
and a polymer contribution
(p),
the latter being described by a Maxwell model:
a
T,= -q,y;
T,+A,-T,= -7j
at
P
(8.4-4a,
b)
so that
T
=
T,
+
T~.
Then if Eqs. 8.4-4a, 8.4-4b, and
A,
times the time derivative of Eq. 8.4-4a are added,
we
get the Jeffreys model of
Eq.
8.44, with
7,
=
q,
+
qp
and
A,
=
(%/(q,
+
?,))A,.
*
J.
D.
Ferry,
Viscoelastic Properties of Polymers,
Wiley, New York, 3rd edition (1980). See also
N.
W. Tschoegl,
The Phenommological Theory of Linear Viscoelastic Behavior,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1989);
and
R.
B.
Bird,
R.
C.
Armstrong, and
0.
Hassager,
Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids, Vol.
I,
Fluid Mechanics,
Wiley-Interscience, New York, 2nd edition (1987), Chapter
5.
T.
W.
Spriggs,
Chem. Eng. Sci.,
20,931-940 (1965).