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Title: | Orientation dynamics of anisotropic and polydisperse colloidal suspensions | Authors: | Mohammad Mehdipour, Narges REDDY, Naveen Shor, Roman J. Natale, Giovanniantonio |
Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | AIP Publishing | Source: | Physics of fluids (1994), 34 (8) (Art N° 083317) | Abstract: | Small-angle light scattering (SALS) is employed to determine in situ microstructural changes of polydisperse colloidal suspensions under capillary flow. Titanium dioxide (rod-like) bundles and kaolinite nanoclay (platelet) flake-like stacks of particles are suspended in a Newtonian fluid to explore the effects of shape anisotropy. Subjecting the systems to a startup test in a flow cell in Stokes's regime, the evolution of the anisotropy factor (AF), and the average orientation angle (chi) of particles vs strain is probed at different averaged Peclet ((Pe)over bar) numbers. Dilute and semi-dilute concentration regimes are explored in a capillary flow. Moving in the vorticity direction, we show significant changes in chi due to the gradient in shear rate in the capillary flow, while no cross-sectional flow migration was exhibited. In these polydisperse colloidal suspensions, two characteristic stages are observed: initial particle alignment and subsequent orientational demixing. Probing the velocity-vorticity (xy) plane, an initial particle alignment in the flow direction at high (Pe)over bar (> 1) occurs, is demonstrated by an elliptical SALS pattern, and then, an increase in AF is observed due to particles' phase mixing. This behavior is then followed by a breakdown in structure and loss of particle alignment due to orientational demixing. The evolution of the average orientation angle of particles in the xy plane can be clearly observed through these two stages by the help of high-resolution SALS contours. These experimental findings provide novel insights into the flow-microstructure relationship of polydisperse colloidal suspensions for the optimization of many industrial processing schemes. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing. | Notes: | Natale, G (corresponding author), Univ Calgary, Dept Chem & Petr Engn, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. gnatale@ucalgary.ca |
Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/38024 | ISSN: | 1070-6631 | e-ISSN: | 1089-7666 | DOI: | 10.1063/5.0101702 | ISI #: | 000841996000002 | Rights: | 2022 Author(s). Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2023 |
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