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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 35: Focus: Rheology I (joint focus with DRG)
CPP 35.10: Talk
Thursday, March 29, 2012, 17:45–18:00, C 243
Thermal convection in a nonlinear non-Newtonian magnetic fluid — David Laroze1,2 and •Harald Pleiner1 — 1Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz — 2Instituto de Alto Investigacion, Universidad de Tarapaca, Arica, Chile
We report theoretical and numerical results on the convection of a magnetic fluid in a viscoelastic carrier liquid. The non-Newtonian material properties are taken care of by a general hydrodynamic nonlinear viscoelastic model [1] that contains, but is more general than the standard Oldroyd and Giesekus phenomenological rheological equation for the stress tensor. We calculate the linear threshold for both idealized and rigid boundary conditions and make the comparison with the linear Oldroyd magnetic fluid [2]. In order to explore the nonlinear behavior we perform a truncated Galerkin expansion obtaining a generalized Lorenz system. We find numerically the system's stationary, periodic and chaotic regimes. Finally, we give a phase diagram depicting the various types of dynamical behavior as a function of the Rayleigh number and the viscoelastic material parameters.
[1] H. Pleiner, M. Liu, H.R. Brand, Rheol. Acta. 43, 502 (2004).
[2] L.M. Pérez, J. Bragard, D. Laroze, J. Martinez-Mardones, H. Pleiner, J. Mag. Mag. Mat. 323, 691 (2011).