The drag of a freely sendimentating sphere in a sheared weakly viscoelastic fluid

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 183-184, Issue , 2012, Pages 52-56

  Housiadas, Kostas D ^a   Tanner, Roger I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drag force; Oldroyd B model; Proppants; Settling velocity; Sphere

Indexed keywords

DEBORAH NUMBERS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; DRAG FORCES; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; NEWTONIANS; OLDROYD-B; PROPPANTS; RIGID SPHERE; SECOND ORDERS; SETTLING VELOCITY; SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW; SPHERICAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS; UPPER CONVECTED MAXWELLS; VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID; VISCOELASTIC FLOWS;

DRAG; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SPHERES; VISCOELASTICITY;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84865987462     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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