High-frequency ultrasonic speckle velocimetry in sheared complex fluids
- 5 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by EDP Sciences in The European Physical Journal Applied Physics
- Vol. 28 (3) , 361-373
- https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2004165
Abstract
High-frequency ultrasonic pulses at 36 MHz are used to measure velocity profiles in a complex fluid sheared in the Couette geometry. Our technique is based on time-domain cross-correlation of ultrasonic speckle signals backscattered by the moving medium. Post-processing of acoustic data allows us to record a velocity profile in 0.02–2 s with a spatial resolution of 40 μm over 1 mm. After a careful calibration using a Newtonian suspension, the technique is applied to a sheared lyotropic lamellar phase seeded with polystyrene spheres of diameter 3–10 μm. Time-averaged velocity profiles reveal the existence of inhomogeneous flows, with both wall slip and shear bands, in the vicinity of a shear-induced “layering” transition. Slow transient regimes and/or temporal fluctuations can also be resolved and exhibit complex spatio-temporal flow behaviors with sometimes more than two shear bands.Keywords
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