Thermal chaotic mixing of power-law fluids in a mixer with alternately rotating walls

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 165, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 641-651

  El Omari, Kamal ^a   Le Guer, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

Author keywords

Chaotic mixing; Heat transfer; High Prandtl number; Power law fluids; Thermal eigenmodes; Unstructured finite volume method

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC FLOWS; CHAOTIC MIXING; CIRCULAR RODS; CYLINDRICAL TANKS; EIGEN MODES; FLUID BEHAVIOR; FLUID TEMPERATURES; FLUID VISCOSITY; HEAT EXTRACTION; HIGHLY VISCOUS FLUIDS; MEAN VALUES; NEWTONIANS; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; POWER LAW FLUID; ROTATING WALLS; ROTATIONAL VELOCITY; SHEAR THICKENING; SHEAR THINNING; SHEAR-THICKENING FLUIDS; STATISTICAL INDICATORS; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS; THERMAL MIXING;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLUIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; METAL RECOVERY; MIXERS (MACHINERY); NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRANDTL NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; ROTATION; VISCOUS FLOW;

MIXING;

EID: 77952554520     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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