Rheologica Acta, Vol.47, No.3, 283-300, 2008
Perspectives on shear banding in complex fluids
In this review, I present an idiosyncratic view of the current state of shear banding in complex fluids. Particular attention is paid to some of the outstanding issues and questions facing the field, including the applicability of models that have "traditionally" been used to model experiments; future directions and challenges for experimentalists; and some of the issues surrounding vorticity banding, which has been discussed theoretically and whose experiments are fewer in number yet, in many ways, more varied in character.
Keywords:constitutive instabilities;shear-induced structure formation;shear banding;shear thinning;nonlinear viscoelasticity;spatiotemporal structure formation