Settling of spherical particles in unbounded and confined surfactant-based shear thinning viscoelastic fluids: An experimental study

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 646-655

  Malhotra, Sahil ^a   Sharma, Mukul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Reynolds number; Settling velocity; Shear thinning; Viscoelastic; Wall factor; Weissenberg number

Indexed keywords

CONFINING WALLS; CREEPING FLOW REGIME; ELASTIC EFFECTS; EMPIRICAL CORRELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLUID RHEOLOGY; NEW CORRELATIONS; PARALLEL PLATES; PARTICLE DIAMETERS; PROPPANTS; RETARDATION EFFECT; SETTLING VELOCITY; SHEAR-THINNING BEHAVIOR; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; VISCO-ELASTIC FLUID; VISCOELASTIC; WALL FACTOR; WEISSENBERG NUMBER;

ELASTICITY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR FLOW; SPHERES; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; VELOCITY;

SHEAR THINNING;

EID: 84867323794     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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