Prediction of the Viscoelastic Properties of a Cetyl Pyridinium Chloride/Sodium Salicylate Micellar Solution: (II) Prediction of the Step Rate Experiments

The reliable viscoelastic characterization and prediction of micellar solution is still required in industrial applications of the solution, e.g., in surfactant flooding and pharmaceuticals. Based on the recent theoretical characterization of the viscoelastic properties of a cetyl pyridinium chloride/sodium salicylate (CPyCl/NaSal) wormlike micellar solution with a structuralized constitutive model in the work published in 2022, the present work predicted five groups of transient shear viscoelasticities of the solution experimentally obtained in 2010, which include the first normal stress difference (N(1)) versus time curve in the start-up experiment, the shear stress (τ(12)) in the start-up experiment, τ(12) in the long-term start-up experiment, the stress relaxation upon cessation of steady shear flow, and the transient N(1)/τ(12) in the step strain experiment. The study findings clearly show an improvement in the predictions of the viscoelastic properties of the micellar solution compared with those predicted previously. For example, the experimental N(1)/τ(12) is 9 at the strain of 9 in the step strain experiment, and the corresponding previous and present predictions are 2.47 and 8.45, respectively.