ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Interaction of Elasto-inertial Turbulence and material microstructure – INTER-ET
Transport and handling of complex fluids is an important contributor to World energy consumption (10% is estimated to come from pumping suspensions), and improving their mixing and heat transfer is a key for new applications from process industry to medicine. A tiny amount of polymers, making the fluid viscoelastic, can completely change its flow, reducing turbulent friction and pumping power by around 70 % at large scales, but creating a whole new kind of turbulence at small scales. Elastic turbulence has recently received exponentially increasing attention, as a promising way to increase mixing and heat transfer at small scales (e.g. lab-on-a-chip applications), efficient cleaning and…
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