Bulletin of the American Physical Society
72nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 64, Number 13
Saturday–Tuesday, November 23–26, 2019; Seattle, Washington
Session R02: François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics talk: Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica |
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Chair: Neil Balmforth, University of British Columbia Room: 6b |
Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:46AM - 10:06AM |
R02.00001: Static and dynamic fluid-driven fracturing of adhered elastica Invited Speaker: Thomasina Ball The transient spreading of viscous fluid beneath an elastic sheet adhered to the substrate is controlled by the dynamics at the tip. The divergence of viscous stresses near the tip necessitates the formation of a vapour tip separating the fluid front and fracture front. Adhesion gives rise to the possibility of static, elastic droplets and to two dynamical regimes of spreading; viscosity dominant spreading controlled by flow of viscous fluid into the vapour tip, and adhesion dominant spreading. Constant flux experiments using clear, PDMS elastic sheets enable new, direct measurements of the vapour tip and confirm the existence of spreading regimes controlled by viscosity and adhesion. The theory and experiments thereby provide an important test coupling the dynamics of viscous flow with elastic deformation and have implications in fluid-driven fracturing of elastic media more generally.\\ \\In collaboration with: Jerome Neufeld, University of Cambridge. [Preview Abstract] |
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