Steady flow of power-law fluids in a 1:3 planar sudden expansion

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 198, Issue , 2013, Pages 48-58

  Dhinakaran, S ^a,b   Oliveira, M S N ^b,c   Pinho, F T ^b   Alves, M A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow bifurcation; Planar sudden expansion; Power law model; Shear thinning and shear thickening fluids; Steady flow

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION PHENOMENA; FLOW BIFURCATIONS; HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER; POWER LAW MODEL; SHEAR-THICKENING FLUIDS; SHEAR-THINNING BEHAVIOR; SUDDEN EXPANSION; VORTEX CHARACTERISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); EXPANSION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LAMINAR FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SHEAR THINNING; STEADY FLOW; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84879518643     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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