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On the multi-scale description of micro-structured fluids composed of aggregating rods

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When addressing the flow of concentrated suspensions composed of rods, dense clusters are observed. Thus, the adequate modelling and simulation of such a flow requires addressing the kinematics of these dense clusters and their impact on the flow in which they are immersed. In a former work, we addressed a first modelling framework of these clusters, assumed so dense that they were considered rigid and their kinematics (flow-induced rotation) were totally defined by a symmetric tensor \({\mathbf {c}}\) with unit trace representing the cluster conformation. Then, the rigid nature of the clusters was relaxed, assuming them deformable, and a model giving the evolution of both the cluster shape and its microstructural orientation descriptor (the so-called shape and orientation tensors) was proposed. This paper compares the predictions coming from those models with finer-scale discrete simulations inspired from molecular dynamics modelling.

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  1. ESI Group Centre Composites R&D, Aero Business Center Aeroparc, 25 Avenue Marcel ISSARTIER Boite 20005, 33702, Mrignac Cedex, France

    Marta Perez

  2. ESI Group Chair, ICI, Centrale Nantes, 1 Rue de la Noe, 44300, Nantes, France

    Adrien Scheuer & Emmanuelle Abisset-Chavanne

  3. LAMPA, ENSAM Angers, 2 Boulevard du Ronceray, BP 93525, 49035, Angers Cedex 01, France

    Amine Ammar

  4. ESI Group Chair, PIMM, ENSAM ParisTech, 151 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013, Paris, France

    Francisco Chinesta

  5. ICTEAM, Université catholique de Louvain, Bat. Euler, Av. Georges Lemaitre 4, 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Adrien Scheuer & Roland Keunings

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Perez, M., Scheuer, A., Abisset-Chavanne, E. et al. On the multi-scale description of micro-structured fluids composed of aggregating rods. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 31, 955–967 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00161-018-0659-1

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