Abstract
Low frequency (61 Hz) shear wave speeds have been measured in viscoelastic wormlike micellar (WM) fluids for a concentration range of 20/12-500/300 mM CTAB/NaSAL where CTAB is the surfactant and NaSAL is the salt and the concentration ratio was fixed at 0.6 for all experiments. The birefringent property of the WM fluids was exploited to visually track the the shear pulse using crossed optical polarizing filters and high speed video. Several scalings of shear wave speed as a function of concentration were discovered: c(s) ~ √C for 20-200 mM and c(s) ~ C for higher concentrations, but with a break in the slope at 400 mM CTAB. Over this full concentration range, the shear wave speed varied from 0.08-0.7 m/s. The shear wave speed was also found to be sensitive to the time between fluid synthesis and measurement indicating a long equilibrium time. Further, comparison with elastic and loss moduli obtained from rheology data show that shear wave propagation is dominated by the elastic modulus for this frequency range. Also briefly discussed are potential applications of this fluid in elastography.
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