Intermittency Route to Rheochaos inWormlike Micelles with Flow-Concentration Coupling

Ganapathy, Rajesh and Sood, AK (2006) Intermittency Route to Rheochaos inWormlike Micelles with Flow-Concentration Coupling. In: Physics Review Letters, 96 (10). 108301-1-108301-4.

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Abstract

We show experimentally that the route to chaos is via intermittency in a shear-thinning wormlike micellar system of cetyltrimethylammonium tosylate, where the strength of flow-concentration coupling is tuned by the addition of salt sodium chloride. A Poincaré first return map of the time series and the probability distribution of laminar lengths between burst events shows that our data is consistent with type-II intermittency. The coupling of flow to concentration fluctuations is evidenced by the "butterfly" intensity pattern in small angle light scattering (SALS) measurements performed simultaneously with the rheological measurements. The scattered depolarized intensity in SALS, sensitive to orientational order fluctuations, shows the same time dependence (like intermittency) as that of shear stress.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physics Review Letters
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	31 May 2006
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:28
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/7201

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