Pearling Instabilities of a Viscoelastic Thread

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 120; no. 19; p. 194501
• Main Authors: Deblais, A, Velikov, K P, Bonn, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 11.05.2018

Pearling instabilities of slender viscoelastic threads have received much attention, but remain incompletely understood. We study the instabilities in polymer solutions subject to uniaxial elongational flow. Two distinctly different instabilites are observed: beads on a string and blistering. The be...