On the velocity discontinuity at a critical volume of a bubble rising in a viscoelastic fluid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 789, Issue , 2016, Pages 310-346

  Fraggedakis, D ^a   Pavlidis, M ^a   Dimakopoulos, Y ^a   Tsamopoulos, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

drops and bubbles; interfacial flows (free surface); non Newtonian flows

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FORECASTING; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POLES; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR THINNING; VELOCITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

DROPS AND BUBBLES; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; INTERFACIAL FLOW (FREE SURFACE); NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITION; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; STEADY-STATE ANALYSIS;

SHEAR FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BUBBLE; DISCONTINUITY; DROPLET; FLOW FIELD; FREE SURFACE FLOW; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; VELOCITY PROFILE; VISCOELASTIC FLUID;

EID: 84954500253     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.740     Document Type: Article

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