The effects of fluid viscoelasticity on the settling behaviour of horizontally aligned spheres

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5822-5831

  Gumulya, M M ^a   Horsley, R R ^a   Pareek, V ^a   Lichti, D D ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Non Newtonian fluids; Particle interaction; Rheology; Sedimentation; Thixotropy; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SEPARATION; CRITICAL VALUE; FLUID MEDIUM; INITIAL DISTANCE; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NORMAL STRESS; RHEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SETTLING VELOCITY; SHEAR THINNING; THIXOTROPY; TWO PARTICLES; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; VISCOELASTIC CHARACTERISTICS;

ELASTICITY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUIDS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

SPHERES;

EID: 80053283950     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.053     Document Type: Article

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