Simulation of particle settling in rotating and non-rotating flows of non-Newtonian fluids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 851-874

  Rameshwaran, P ^a   Townsend, P ^a   Webster, M F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drag; Finite elements; Inelastic non Newtonian fluids; Particle settling; Rotating and non rotating flows; Taylor Galerkin pressure correction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PIPE FLOW; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SPHERES; VISCOUS FLOW;

NON ROTATING FLOWS; PARTICLE SETTLING; TAYLOR GALERKIN/PRESSURE CORRECTION;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; PARTICLE MOTION; ROTATING FLOW;

NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PARTICLE SETTLING; ROTATING FLUIDS;

EID: 0032053238     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0363(19980415)26:7<851::AID-FLD704>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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