Mechanism of drag increase on spheres in viscoelastic cross-shear flows

Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 203, Issue , 2014, Pages 51-53

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Normal stresses; Settling speed; Sphere; Suspension; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

DRAG; SPHERES; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VISCOELASTICITY;

CROSS-SHEAR; NORMAL STRESS; QUIESCENT FLUID; SETTLING SPEED; STREAMLINE PATTERN; VIS-COELASTIC FLUIDS;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84888403962     PISSN: 03770257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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