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A theoretical relation is derived for the bulk stress in dilute suspensions of neutrally buoyant, uniform size, spherical drops in a viscoelastic liquid medium. This is achieved by the classic volume-averaging procedure of Landau and Lifschitz which excludes Brownian motion. The disturbance velocity and pressure fields interior and exterior to a second-order fluid drop suspended in a simple shear flow of another second-order fluid were derived by Peery [9] for small Weissenberg number (We), omitting inertia. The results of the averaging procedure include terms up to orderWe 2. The shear viscosity of a suspension of Newtonian droplets in a viscoelastic liquid is derived as
whereη 0, andω 10 are the viscosity and primary normal stress coefficient of the medium,ε 0 is a ratio typically between −0.5 and −0.86,k is the ratio of viscosities of disperse and continuous phases, and\(\dot \gamma \) is the bulk rate of shear strain. This relation includes, in addition to the Taylor result, a shear-thinning factor (f 1 > 0) which is associated with the elasticity of the medium. This explains observed trends in relative shear viscosity of suspensions with rigid particles reported by Highgate and Whorlow [6] and with drops reported by Han and King [8]. The expressions (atO (We 2)) for normal-stress coefficients do not include any strain rate dependence; the calculated values of primary normal-stress difference match values observed at very low strain rates.
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Sun, K., Jayaraman, K. Bulk rheology of dilute suspensions in viscoelastic liquids. Rheol Acta 23, 84–89 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01333879
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01333879