The slow motion of a spherical particle in a carreau fluid

Chemical Engineering Communications

Volumn 154, Issue , 1996, Pages 203-215

  Rodrigue, D ^a   De Kee, D ^a   Chan Man Fong, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bubble sphere; Carreau model; Drag coefficient; Perturbation scheme

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CREEP; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SPHERES;

CARREAU FLUID; CREEPING FLOW; POWER LAW INDEX; SHEAR THINNING FLUID; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

DRAG;

EID: 0030416818     PISSN: 00986445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00986449608936652     Document Type: Article

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