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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 62: Complex Fluids and Soft Matter - Part II (joint session DY, CPP, BP)
CPP 62.7: Talk
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 11:15–11:30, BH-N 334
Flow properties of anisotropic fluids — •Sebastian Heidenreich1, Sabine H. L. Klapp2, and Markus Bär1 — 1Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany — 2Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
From liquid crystal polymers to suspensions of bacteria anisotropic fluids are ubiquitous in nature and technology. The flow exhibits intriguing phenomena like flow alignment, shear banding, tumbling, shear thickening/thinning, large-scale correlation and mesoscale turbulence. The emergence of such fascinating aspects is often related to the anisotropy and to the out-of equilibrium character of the considered system. In the first part of our presentation we review selected flow phenomena of passive fluids with anisotropy. We discuss the role of the order parameter like the alignment tensor for the description of the flow properties. In particular, we introduce the relaxation equation for the alignment tensor coupled to the hydrodynamic flow and discuss the orientational dynamics in the shear flow. In the second part of the talk we focus on active fluids like dense bacterial suspensions and we introduce the governing hydrodynamic equations for self-sustained individuals that are swimming in a Newtonian fluid. We discuss the relationship to the passive counterpart and finally present recent work on mesoscale bacterial turbulence.