The shearing of fluids—meaning the sliding of fluid layers over each other under shear forces—is an important concept in nature and in rheology, the science that studies the flow behavior of matter, including liquids and soft solids.
Shear forces are lateral forces applied parallel to a material, inducing deformation or slippage between its layers.
Fluid shear experiments allow the characterization of important rheological properties such as viscosity (resistance to deformation or flow) and thixotropy (decrease in viscosity under the influence of shear), which are important in applications ranging from industrial processes to medicine.
Fluid shear experiments allow the characterization of important rheological properties such as viscosity (resistance to deformation or flow) and thixotropy (decrease in viscosity under the influence of shear), which are important in applications ranging from industrial processes to medicine.
Studies on the shear behavior of viscoelastic fluids created by introducing polymers into Newtonian fluids have already been conducted in recent years. READ MORE...
