D'AVINO G.

The growing demand of nanomaterials is pushing towards the development of alternative strategies for the safe and sustainable production of nanoparticles. At the same time, to ensure high performances, a fine control over the product specifications is required. We focused on a bottom-up method combined with a mechanical disaggregation technique...

In this work, we present 2D numerical simulations on the migration of a particle suspended in a viscoelastic fluid under Poiseuille flow at finite Reynolds numbers, in order to clarify the simultaneous effects of viscoelasticity and inertia on the lateral particle motion.The governing equations are solved through the finite element method by...