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Secondary flows of viscoelastic fluids in serpentine microchannels

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Secondary flows are ubiquitous in channel flows, where small velocity components perpendicular to the main velocity appear due to the complexity of the channel geometry and/or that of the flow itself such as from inertial or non-Newtonian effects, etc. We investigate here the inertialess secondary flow of viscoelastic fluids in curved microchan-nels of rectangular cross-section and constant but alternating curvature: the so-called "serpentine channel" geometry. Numerical calculations (Poole et al, 2013) have shown that in this geometry, in the absence of elastic instabilities, a steady secondary flow develops that takes the shape of two counter-rotating vortices in the plane of the channel cross-section. We present the first experimental visualization evidence and characterization of these steady secondary flows, using a complementarity of µPIV in the plane of the channel, and L. Ducloué · L. Casanellas · A. Lindner confocal visualisation of dye-stream transport in the cross-sectional plane. We show that the measured streamlines and the relative velocity magnitude of the secondary flows are in qualitative agreement with the numerical results. In addition to our techniques being broadly applicable to the character-isation of three-dimensional flow structures in microchan-nels, our results are important for understanding the onset of instability in serpentine viscoelastic flows.
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hal-02311614 , version 1 (11-10-2019)

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Lucie Ducloué, Laura Casanellas, Simon J Haward, Robert J Poole, Manuel A Alves, et al.. Secondary flows of viscoelastic fluids in serpentine microchannels. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2019, 23 (3), ⟨10.1007/s10404-019-2195-0⟩. ⟨hal-02311614⟩
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