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Viscoelastic fluids exhibit elastic instabilities in simple shear flow and flow through curved streamlines. Surprisingly, we found in a porous medium such fluids show strikingly different hydrodynamic instabilities depicted by very large sideways excursions and presence of fast and slow moving lanes which have not been reported before. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements through a pillared microchannel, provide experimental evidence of such instabilities at very low Reynolds number (< 0.01). We observe a transition from a symmetric laminar to an asymmetric flow, which finally transforms to a nonlinear aperiodic flow with strong lateral movements. The instability is characterized by a rapid increase in spatial and temporal fluctuations of velocity components and pressure at a critical Deborah number (De). Our experiments reveal the presence of a fascinating interplay between pore space and fluid rheology.
The buckling and twisting of slender, elastic fibers is a deep and well-studied field. A slender elastic rod that is twisted with respect to a fixed end will spontaneously form a loop, or hockle, to relieve the torsional stress that builds. Further t
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We analyse here the problem of large deformation of dielectric elastomeric membranes under coupled electromechanical loading. Extremely large deformations (enclosed volume changes of 100 times and greater) of a toroidal membrane are studied by the us