Mobility of shear thinning viscous drops in a shear Newtonian carrying flow using DR-BEM

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1321-1349

  Giraldo, M ^a   Power, Henry ^b   Florez W ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary integral methods; Low Reynolds number flows; Mobility; Shear thinning drops

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHODS; CAPILLARY NUMBERS; COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; DUAL RECIPROCITY METHODS; LINEAR SHEAR FLOW; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; LOW VISCOSITY; LOW-REYNOLDS-NUMBER FLOWS; MOBILITY; NEWTONIAN DROPS; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN; NON-NEWTONIAN DROPS; NON-NEWTONIAN VISCOSITY; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; POWER LAW MODEL; SHEAR THINNING; SHEAR THINNING DROPS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VISCOSITY RATIOS; VISCOUS DROPS; VISCOUS SHEAR;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CAPILLARITY; DROP BREAKUP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

NON NEWTONIAN FLOW;

EID: 66149119866     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1869     Document Type: Article

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