Degradation of homogeneous polymer solutions in high shear turbulent pipe flow

Experiments in Fluids

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1033-1044

  Elbing, B R ^a   Winkel, E S ^a,b   Solomon, M J ^a   Ceccio, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Design Research Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH; DRAG FORCES; HIGH SHEAR; HOMOGENEOUS POLYMERS; LARGE DIAMETER; LARGE DIAMETER PIPES; POLYACRYLAMIDES; POLYMER CHAINS; PURE WATER; SHEAR RATES; SYNTHETIC SEAWATER; TURBULENT PIPE FLOW; UNIVERSAL SCALING;

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; DEGRADATION; DRAG; PIPE; PIPE FLOW; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; POLYMERS; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEAWATER;

SHEAR DEFORMATION;

EID: 71249101971     PISSN: 07234864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00348-009-0693-7     Document Type: Article

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