Simulation of the rheological properties of suspensions of oblate spheroidal particles in a Newtonian fluid

Rheologica Acta

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 53-73

  Bertevas, Erwan ^a   Fan, Xijun ^a   Tanner, Roger I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lubrication interaction; Normal stress difference; Oblate spheroid; Particle orientation; Suspension rheology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952744489     PISSN: 00354511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00397-009-0390-8     Document Type: Article

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