ArticleScience advances2021
Elastic turbulence generates anomalous flow resistance in porous media.
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- Study on Viscoelastic Characteristics of Polymer Solution Formation and Their Effect on Oil Displacement Efficiency.Polymers · 2025Article
- Experimental evidence for the continuous transition between elastic and elastoinertial turbulence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Semi-analytical solutions of passive scalar transport in generalized Newtonian fluid flow.Physics of fluids (Woodbury, N.Y. : 1994) · 2025Article
- Harnessing elastic instabilities for enhanced mixing and reaction kinetics in porous media.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Geometry-Dependent Elastic Flow Dynamics in Micropillar Arrays.Micromachines · 2024Article
- General hydrodynamic features of elastoviscoplastic fluid flows through randomised porous media.Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics · 2024Article
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- Lagrangian stretching reveals stress topology in viscoelastic flows.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Stagnation points control chaotic fluctuations in viscoelastic porous media flow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many energy, environmental, industrial, and microfluidic processes rely on the flow of polymer solutions through porous media. Unexpectedly, the macroscopic flow resistance often increases above a threshold flow rate in a porous medium, but not in bulk solution. The reason why has been a puzzle for over half a century. Here, by directly visualizing flow in a transparent 3D porous medium, we demonstrate that this anomalous increase is due to the onset of an elastic instability in which the flow exhibits strong spatiotemporal fluctuations reminiscent of inertial turbulence, despite the small Reynolds number. Our measurements enable us to quantitatively establish that the energy dissipated by pore-scale fluctuations generates the anomalous increase in the overall flow resistance. Because the macroscopic resistance is one of the most fundamental descriptors of fluid flow, our results both help deepen understanding of complex fluid flows and provide guidelines to inform a broad range of applications.
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