Abstract
We study the dynamics of a model for thixotropic yield stress fluids which was recently proposed in [1]. This is based on the partially extended convected model (PEC), modified to allow for a non-zero shear stress limit for large shear rates (PECR), and combined with a Newtonian solvent to enable yielding to homogeneous shear flow (PECR-N) under a prescribed shear stress. We define ϵ to be the ratio of retardation time to relaxation time and focus on the limit ϵ → 0. Multiple time scales arise and the solutions are investigated with perturbation methods, in conjunction with direct computation of the full set of equations. Both PEC-N and PECR-N capture the experimentally observed phenomenon that the value of yield stress depends on the observation time. For the PECR-N model, we find transient solutions that are not expected from prior work on the PEC-N model, such as blow-up in finite time on the slow manifold, and yielded time-periodic flow.
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