Diagnosis at a glance of biological non-Newtonian fluids with Film Interference Flow Imaging (FIFI)

R. Hidema; N. Yamada; H. Furukawa

doi:10.1117/12.915171

30 March 2012 Diagnosis at a glance of biological non-Newtonian fluids with Film Interference Flow Imaging (FIFI)

R. Hidema, N. Yamada, H. Furukawa

Proceedings Volume 8346, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration 2012; 83461D (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.915171
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In the human body, full of biological non-Newtonian fluids exist. For example, synovial fluids exist in our joints, which contain full of biopolymers, such as hyaluronan and mucin. It is thought that these polymers play critical roles on the smooth motion of the joint. Indeed, luck of biopolymers in synovial fluid cause joint pain. Here we study the effects of polymer in thin liquid layer by using an original experimental method called Film Interference Flow Imaging (FIFI). A vertically flowing soap film containing polymers is made as two-dimensional flow to observe turbulence. The thickness of water layer is about 4 μm sandwiched between surfactant mono-layers. The interference pattern of the soap film is linearly related to the flow velocity in the water layer through the change in the thickness of the film. Thus the flow velocity is possibly analyzed by the single image analysis of the interference pattern, that is, FIFI. The grid turbulence was made in the flowing soap films containing the long flexible polymer polyethyleneoxide (PEO, M_w=3.5x10⁶), and rigid polymer hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC, M_w > 1.0 x10⁶). The decaying process of the turbulence is affected by PEO and HPC at several concentrations. The effects of PEO are sharply seen even at low concentrations, while the effects of HPC are gradually occurred at much higher concentration compared to the PEO. It is assumed that such a difference between PEO and HPC is due to the polymer stretching or polymer orientation under turbulence, which is observed and analyzed by FIFI. We believe the FIFI will be applied in the future to examine biological fluids such as synovial fluids quickly and quantitatively.

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R. Hidema, N. Yamada, and H. Furukawa "Diagnosis at a glance of biological non-Newtonian fluids with Film Interference Flow Imaging (FIFI)", Proc. SPIE 8346, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems Integration 2012, 83461D (30 March 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.915171

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