REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON + Peace ~ Work - Fatherland UNIVERSITE DE YAOUNDE I UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE | FACULTE DES SCIENCES FACULTY OF SCIENCE _DEPARTEMENT DE PHYSIQUE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS B.P. 812 Yaoundé, Tél/fax : 222.22.53.86 inti P.O. Box : 812 Yaoundé, Tel/fax : 222.22.53.8% REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN Paix - Travail ~ Patrie COMMUNIQUE Le Chef de Département de Physique a I’honneur d’informer les enseignants. ainsi que les étudiants de Master et Doctorat du Département éponyme que Dr Martin N. AZESE, Assistant Professor au « Department of Mechanical Engineering, Otterbein University, USA », dispensera un séminaire le mereredi 16 décembre 2020 a 10h00, dans la Salle S01/02 du Nouveau Bloc Pédagogique de la Faculté des Sciences de I’Université de Yaoundé |, sur le theme: “CHARACTERIZING SLIP-VELOCITY IN COUETTE-RHEOLOGY OF NEWTONIAN AND LINEAR VISCOELASTIC LIQUIDS”. BSTRAC In this talk, | examine the effect of velocity slippage in a high precision device used in characterizing fluid parameters, rheometers, where velocity slippage is bound to occur due to the extremely small channel width. Through a robust calculation, I will quantify this slippage by rigorously anal the flow dynamics involved in the Couette gap, where a sample Newtonian and viscoelastic fluid are been sheared. The governing equations that originate from these studies are first partial differential equations having Robin-type boundary equations. As a result, they are solved using the Sturm-Liouville theory using eigenfunctions decomposition, and thus expansion. The equations reveal interesting non-dimensional numbers such as the Reynolds number, the Rothko number, and the Weissenberg number, In the end, a reverse engineering process is shown, where the algorithms involve Fourier transforms wile highlighting Lissajous figures, and Mooney-like procedures. This will lead to a proper systematic characterization of slippage, which is critical in the calibration or high precision rheometers.