7.2 Standard Flow and Material Functions
For rheometric flows, the fluid is assumed to be isotropic so that it has no
preferred direction other than the unidirectional flow field. In Eq. (7.2.2),
IJ is sometimes called the deviatoric stress tensor in order to distinguish it
from the total stress tensor T .
Due to the symmetric nature of
T , recognizing the fluid as a non-polar
fluid, the shear stresses
xy
and
yx
are the same in their value and
yx
will be written by using the non-Newtonian viscosity
JK
as previously
defined in Eq. (7.1.1)
ȖȖȘIJ
yx
(7.2.3)
In incompressible fluids, which are subject to study in most non-
Newtonian fluids practice, the pressure
in Eq. (7.2.2) cannot be sepa-
rated from normal stress measurements on a solid interface, so that in order
to isolate
from the measurements two normal stress differences are only
meaningful when determining the material functions, such that
2
1
1
ȖȖȥIJIJN
yyxx
(7.2.4)
and
2
2
2
ȖȖȥIJIJN
zzyy
(7.2.5)
where the functions
1
\
and
2
\
are called the first and the second normal
stress coefficients respectively. It is noted that
2
is used instead of
for
the reason that the sign of the two normal stress differences are not to be
changed for the choice of the sign for
.
,
1
and
2
are the material functions, which are often referred to
as the viscometric functions. They are directly connected with a design of
unit operations for processing viscoelastic materials and the mechanical
performance of lubricants. The first normal difference
1
ȃ has significant
effects on unique viscoelastic flow phenomena, such as die swell, Weis-
senberg effect and etc. Both
xy
and
1
ȃ can be routinely measured by
commercially available instruments. The second normal stress differ-
ence
2
ȃ , however, receives less attention due to difficulties in its meas-
urements, and for the smallness of its value. For many materials,
2
ȃ
would be usually an order of magnitude smaller than, and have the op-
viscometric functions are displayed. The graphs are typical of many
posite sign to, that of
1
ȃ . In Fig. 7.9, the representative data trends of
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