Semi-dilute polymer solutions in strong flows. Part I: Birefringence and flow modification in extensional flows. Part II: Chaotic mixing in time-periodic flows
Text or symbols not renderable in plain ASCII are indicated by [...]. Abstract is included in .pdf document. The non-Newtonian effects of semi-dilute polymer solutions in laminar two-dimensional steady and time-periodic strong flows are examined separately in two parts of this thesis. Strong flows...