Simple shear is not so simple! Kinematics and shear senses in Newtonian viscous simple shear zones

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 819-826

  Mukherjee, Soumyajit ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

extrusion; Newtonian fluid; Poiseuille flow; shear sense; shear zone; simple shear; viscosity

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SHEAR STRAIN; VISCOSITY;

FLOW PARAMETERS; NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NON HORIZONTALS; POISEUILLE FLOW; RIGID BOUNDARIES; SHEAR ZONE; SIMPLE SHEAR; VELOCITY PROFILES;

SHEAR FLOW;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; NEWTONIAN FLUID; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR ZONE; VELOCITY PROFILE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84864434543     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811001075     Document Type: Article

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