Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics Light Scattering Studies on the Orientational Behavior of Macromolecular Solutions in a Shear Flow

Abstract: Theoretical investigation of Rayleigh light scattering by a suspension of anisotropic ellipsoidal particles subjected to a shear flow is carried out. Some properties of the suspension of such particles caused by Brownian rotation of these particles are studied. It is shown that the action of a shear flow induces deformations in the shape of scattering line and results into the non-monotonic frequency dependence of depolarized scattering spectral lines with additional local maxima in the spectra. This work is being dedicated to the memory of Alexandr V. Zatovsky who passed away on August 18, 2006. His field of interest was on the Dynamic Properties o