Wall Effects on Terminal Velocity of Small Drops in Newtonian and non-Newtonian Fluids

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 817-822

  Chhabra, R P ^a,b   Bangun, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Drag; Fluid spheres; Power law fluids; Wall effect

Indexed keywords

DRAG; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS; WALL FLOW;

FREE FALLING VELOCITY; WALL EFFECT;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

DROP; NEWTONIAN FLUID; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; WALL;

DROPLETS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; VELOCITY; WALL EFFECTS;

EID: 0031251865     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450750501     Document Type: Article

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