TY - JOUR
T1 - Thin liquid layers in shear
T2 - non-Newtonian effects
AU - Rabin, Yitzhak
AU - Hersht, Igor
PY - 1993/11/15
Y1 - 1993/11/15
N2 - When shear flow is generated in molecularly thin liquid films of simple liquids confined between two parallel plates, the effective viscosity of the liquid increases by many orders of magnitude compared to its bulk value. Non-Newtonian effects such as shear thinning with a universal power law exponent of 2 3 are observed in experiments and computer simulations. We present a simple model of these phenomena based on shear melting of solid-like layers induced by the strong coupling with the crystalline walls.
AB - When shear flow is generated in molecularly thin liquid films of simple liquids confined between two parallel plates, the effective viscosity of the liquid increases by many orders of magnitude compared to its bulk value. Non-Newtonian effects such as shear thinning with a universal power law exponent of 2 3 are observed in experiments and computer simulations. We present a simple model of these phenomena based on shear melting of solid-like layers induced by the strong coupling with the crystalline walls.
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U2 - 10.1016/0378-4371(93)90578-R
DO - 10.1016/0378-4371(93)90578-R
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AN - SCOPUS:0011331193
SN - 0378-4371
VL - 200
SP - 708
EP - 712
JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
JF - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
IS - 1-4
ER -