7.3 Viscoelastic Fluid and Flow
Equation (7.3.71) can be reduced to a number of constitutive equations,
as is often referred in the literature. For example, by setting
¦
c
c
odd
tt
ettM
D
ODS
O
22
2
0
96
(7.3.81)
and
³
nnn
ˆˆˆ
C
dW :ln
4
5
ൖ,ൕ
1
S
(7.3.82)
we can obtain the Curtiss–Bird (1981) constitutive equation.
7.3.3 Viscoelastic Models to Standard Flow and Application to
Some Engineering Flow Problems
In the preceding section we shall see the rheological predictions of some
simple viscoelastic constitutive equations. However, it should be kept in
mind that these viscoelastic constitutive equations would be used to por-
tray the rheological properties that are observed in typical polymeric fluids.
There are, in fact, a wide variety of material functions, as overviewed in
Section 7.2. The cases examined here are chiefly based on the properties,
in view of applying the equations to engineering problems, that are de-
pendent upon the shear viscosity
JK
and the first normal stress coeffi-
cient
J\
1
in steady, simple shear flows, and also the elongational viscos-
ity
HK
e
at finite level of the elongational rate
in particular.
Some of typical flow problems are exemplified in the later section to
illustrate the methods of applying the equations.
7.3.3.1 UCM, CRM and Giesekus Equations
In order to examine rheological characteristics of the constitutive equations
at a steady state, an assumption is made to state that a time period after
imposing a steady shear or elongation is much longer than the relaxation
time constant, which is a property of fluid at rest.
We shall begin to examine the UCM equation given in Eq. (7.3.47), for
simple shear and shearfree flows. Firstly, in the simple shear flow, UCM
equation is written (with reference to Exercise 7.3.1) where
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