Bubble motion through a generalized power-law fluid flowing in a vertical tube

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1161, Issue , 2009, Pages 256-267

  Mukundakrishnan, Karthik ^a   Eckmann, David M ^a   Ayyaswamy, P S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble; Bubble residence time; Front tracking; Gas embolism; Power law fluid; Shear thinning fluid; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; TUBE;

EID: 65249131245     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04089.x     Document Type: Article

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