Non-Newtonian fluid#Oobleck

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The viscosity of a shear thickening{{snd}}i.e. dilatant{{snd}} fluid appears to increase when the shear rate increases. Corn starch suspended in water ("oobleck", see below) is a common example: when stirred slowly it looks milky, when stirred vigorously it feels like a very viscous liquid.

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A familiar example of the opposite, a shear thinning fluid, or pseudoplastic fluid, is wall paint: The paint should flow readily off the brush when it is being applied to a surface but not drip excessively. Note that all thixotropic fluids are extremely shear thinning, but they are significantly time dependent, whereas the colloidal "shear thinning" fluids respond instantaneously to changes in shear rate. Thus, to avoid confusion, the latter classification is more clearly termed pseudoplastic.

Another example of a shear thinning fluid is blood. This application is highly favoured within the body, as it allows the viscosity of blood to decrease with increased shear strain rate.

Fluids that have a linear shear stress/shear strain relationship but require a finite yield stress before they begin to flow (the plot of shear stress against shear strain does not pass through the origin) are called Bingham plastics. Several examples are clay suspensions, drilling mud, toothpaste, mayonnaise, chocolate, and mustard. The surface of a Bingham plastic can hold peaks when it is still. By contrast Newtonian fluids have flat featureless surfaces when still.

There are also fluids whose strain rate is a function of time. Fluids that require a gradually increasing shear stress to maintain a constant strain rate are referred to as rheopectic. An opposite case of this is a fluid that thins out with time and requires a decreasing stress to maintain a constant strain rate (thixotropic).

Many common substances exhibit non-Newtonian flows. These include:{{cite book|last=Chhabra|first=R.P.|title=Bubbles, Drops, and Particles in Non-Newtonian Fluids.|year=2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis Ltd.|location=Hoboken|isbn=978-1-4200-1538-6|pages=9–10|edition=2nd}}{{Cite book |last1=Astarita |first1=G. |title=Principles of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics |last2=Marucci |first2=G. |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=1972 |isbn=9780070840225}}{{Cite book |last=Fridtjov |first=I. |title=Rheology and Non-Newtonian Fluids |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9783319010526}}{{Cite book |last1=Patel |first1=M. |title=Non-Newtonian Fluid Models and Boundary Layer Flow |last2=Timol |first2=M. |publisher=LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |year=2020 |isbn=9786203198614}}{{Cite book |last=Hori |first=Y. |title=Hydrodynamic Lubrication |date=2006 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9784431278986}}{{Cite book |last=Böhme |first=G. |title=Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. |date=1987 |publisher=North-Holland |isbn=9780444567826}}

• Soap solutions, cosmetics, and toothpaste
• Food such as butter, cheese, jam, mayonnaise, soup, taffy, and yogurt
• Natural substances such as magma, lava, gums, honey, and extracts such as vanilla extract
• Biological fluids such as blood, saliva, semen, mucus, and synovial fluid
• Slurries such as cement slurry and paper pulp, emulsions such as mayonnaise, and some kinds of dispersions

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An inexpensive, non-toxic example of a non-Newtonian fluid is a suspension of starch (e.g., cornstarch/cornflour) in water, sometimes called "oobleck", "ooze", or "magic mud" (1 part of water to 1.5–2 parts of corn starch).{{cite web|url=http://www.instructables.com/id/Oobleck/|title=Oobleck: The Dr. Seuss Science Experiment|website=instructables.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/ooze.html|title=Outrageous Ooze|website=Exploratorium|date=7 March 2023 }}{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v4qow8T1qsYC&pg=PA235|pages=235–236|title=The Complete Home Learning Source Book|last=Rupp|first=Rebecca|chapter=Magic Mud and Other Great Experiments|year=1998|publisher=Three Rivers Press |isbn=978-0-609-80109-3}} The name "oobleck" is derived from the Dr. Seuss book Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

Because of its dilatant properties, oobleck is often used in demonstrations that exhibit its unusual behavior. A person may walk on a large tub of oobleck without sinking due to its shear thickening properties, as long as the individual moves quickly enough to provide enough force with each step to cause the thickening. Also, if oobleck is placed on a large subwoofer driven at a sufficiently high volume, it will thicken and form standing waves in response to low frequency sound waves from the speaker. If a person were to punch or hit oobleck, it would thicken and act like a solid. After the blow, the oobleck will go back to its thin liquid-like state.

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Flubber, also commonly known as slime, is a non-Newtonian fluid, easily made from polyvinyl alcohol–based glues (such as white "school" glue) and borax. It flows under low stresses but breaks under higher stresses and pressures. This combination of fluid-like and solid-like properties makes it a Maxwell fluid. Its behaviour can also be described as being viscoplastic or gelatinous.[http://www.extension.iastate.edu/e-set/science_is_here/glurch.html Glurch Meets Oobleck] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706182730/http://www.extension.iastate.edu/e-set/science_is_here/glurch.html |date=6 July 2010 }}. Iowa State University Extension.

Another example of non-Newtonian fluid flow is chilled caramel ice cream topping (so long as it incorporates hydrocolloids such as carrageenan and gellan gum). The sudden application of force—by stabbing the surface with a finger, for example, or rapidly inverting the container holding it—causes the fluid to behave like a solid rather than a liquid. This is the "shear thickening" property of this non-Newtonian fluid. More gentle treatment, such as slowly inserting a spoon, will leave it in its liquid state. Trying to jerk the spoon back out again, however, will trigger the return of the temporary solid state.{{cite thesis |title=The Rheology of Caramel |year=2004 |first=Giuseppina |last=Barra |type=PhD |publisher=University of Nottingham |url=http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11837}}

{{main|Silly Putty}}

Silly Putty is a silicone polymer based suspension that will flow, bounce, or break, depending on strain rate.

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Plant resin is a viscoelastic solid polymer. When left in a container, it will flow slowly as a liquid to conform to the contours of its container. If struck with greater force, however, it will shatter as a solid.

{{Main|Quicksand}}

Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian colloid that gains viscosity at rest. Quicksand's non-Newtonian properties can be observed when it experiences a slight shock (for example, when someone walks on it or agitates it with a stick), shifting between its gel and sol phase and seemingly liquefying, causing objects on the surface of the quicksand to sink.

Ketchup is a shear thinning fluid.{{cite book |title=Pump Application Desk Book |edition=3rd |first=Paul N. |last=Garay |publisher=Prentice Hall |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-88173-231-3 |page=358 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pww5cxwitHAC&q=thixotropic&pg=PA359}}{{cite journal |title=Microscopy reveals why ketchup squirts |url=http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/September/02091103.asp |journal=Chemistry World |last=Cartwright |first=Jon |date=2 September 2011 |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry}} Shear thinning means that the fluid viscosity decreases with increasing shear stress. In other words, fluid motion is initially difficult at slow rates of deformation, but will flow more freely at high rates. Shaking an inverted bottle of ketchup can cause it to transition to a lower viscosity through shear thinning, making it easier to pour from the bottle.

Under certain circumstances, flows of granular materials can be modelled as a continuum, for example using the μ(I) rheology. Such continuum models tend to be non-Newtonian, since the apparent viscosity of granular flows increases with pressure and decreases with shear rate. The main difference is the shearing stress and rate of shear.

Important issue for non-Newtonian fluids is glass behavior during radioactive waste vitrification when special attention is given to viscosity of the molten multicomponent glass being described by Douglas-Doremus-Ojovan (DDO) model of viscosity of glasses and melts {{Cite journal |last1=Yudintsev |first1=Sergey V. |last2=Ojovan |first2=Michael I. |last3=Malkovsky |first3=Victor I. |date=February 2024 |title=Thermal Effects and Glass Crystallization in Composite Matrices for Immobilization of the Rare-Earth Element–Minor Actinide Fraction of High-Level Radioactive Waste |journal=Journal of Composites Science |language=en |volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=70 |doi=10.3390/jcs8020070 |doi-access=free |issn=2504-477X}}

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• Complex fluid
• Dilatant
• Dissipative particle dynamics
• Generalized Newtonian fluid
• Herschel–Bulkley fluid
• Liquefaction
• Navier–Stokes equations
• Newtonian fluid
• Pseudoplastic
• Quicksand
• Quick clay
• Rheology
• Superfluids
• Thixotropy
• Weissenberg effect

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