A study on flow characteristics of electrorheological fluid in a damper model

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-399

  Yamaguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Zhang, Xin Rong ^a,b   Inoue, Daisuke ^a  

^a DOSHISHA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Finite volume ethods; Flow; Hydrodynamics; Pressure measurement (liquids); Rheology

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; DAMPER MODEL; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; ELECTRO-RHEOLOGICAL FLUID; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; ER FLUID; FINITE VOLUME ETHODS; FLOW; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; INFLUENCING FACTOR; INNER WALLS; MOVEMENT SPEED; NUMERICAL FORMULATION; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; ON FLOW; PISTON MOVEMENT; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; PRESSURE RESPONSE; VISUALIZATION EXPERIMENT; WORKING MODELS;

ASPECT RATIO; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DAMPING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS; NANOFLUIDICS; PLASTICITY; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSORS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 68149163311     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400910959179     Document Type: Article

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