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SUBMITTER: de Goede TC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362045 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20190204 1
We investigate which property of non-Newtonian fluids determines the deceleration of a high-speed impacting object. Using high-speed camera footage, we measure the velocity decrease of a high-speed spherical object impacting a typical Newtonian fluid (water) as a reference and compare it with a shear thickening fluid (cornstarch) and a shear thinning viscoelastic fluid (a weakly cross-linked polymer gel). Three models describing the kinetic energy loss of the object are considered: fluid inertia ...[more]