Dynamic wetting of shear thinning fluids

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Seevaratnam, G K ^a   Suo, Y ^b   Rame E ^c   Walker, L M ^a   Garoff, S ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Raindance Technologies   (United States)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Lubrication; Non Newtonian flow; Non Newtonian fluids; Shear flow; Viscosity; Wetting

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CONTACT ANGLE; ELASTICITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR VISCOSITY;

CAPILLARY NUMBER; DYNAMIC WETTING; SHEAR THINNING; VISCOUS BENDING;

WETTING;

CAPILLARITY; CONSTITUTIVE MODELS; CONTACT ANGLE; ELASTICITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR VISCOSITY; WETTING;

EID: 33847780572     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2432107     Document Type: Article

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