An adaptive remeshing strategy for shear-thinning fluid flow simulations

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2363-2375

  Fortin, A ^a   Bertrand, F ^b   Fortin, M ^a   Chamberland, E ^a   Boulanger Nadeau, P E ^a   El Maliki, A ^a   Najeh, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive remeshing; Error estimation; Finite element method; Iterative methods; Shear thinning fluids

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; VISCOSITY;

POWER-LAW MODELS; SHEAR-THINNING VISCOSITY EFFECTS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ERROR; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID FLOW;

ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 4143056763     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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