Chaotic rheological parameters of periodically forced suspensions of slender rods in simple shear flow

Abstract

We demonstrate for the first time that the rheological parameters like the apparent viscosities and the first and second normal stress differences of suspensions of orientable particles can show chaotic behavior when the orientation vector evolves chaotically. We also demonstrate that the range of the values of the rheological parameters is about 10 000 times greater when the parameters evolve chaotically. This suggests that a wide range of properties may be obtained by small variations in controllable parameters. When coupled with suitable control of chaos algorithms, a wide range of suspension behavior is thus possible since a chaotic solution can be considered as an unlimited reservoir of periodic solutions of arbitrary period.