2015-03-11
10:15 at HCI J 574

Rheology in flatland: first steps

Alan Luo

Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

present a rather general approach based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics for describing the interfacial rheology of particle-stabilised interfaces. This approach bridges the gap between macroscopic constitutive equations and the underlying microscopic model and here, I illustrate it for a microscopic model of hard ellipsoids confined to lie in-plane, which is intended to simply represent anisotropic particles adsorbed on a fluid-fluid interface. Further directions this work could take (including into the third dimension!) will be discussed.