A numerical study of the motion of a spherical drop rising in shear-thinning fluid systems

DOI10.1016/J.JNNFM.2003.08.004MaRDI QIDQ1434722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mitsuhiro Ohta, Eiji Iwasaki, Eiji Obata, Yutaka Yoshida

Publication date 12 July 2004

Published in Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2003.08.004

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Cross-Carreau modelVOF method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Non-Newtonian fluids (76A05)

Review text

The authors experimentally and computationally consider the motion of a Newtonian spherical drop rising freely through inelastic shar-thinnings fluids expressed by the generalized Cross-Carreau model. As a consequence, the authors come to the following conclusion: the contributions of the shear-thinning effect to the drop motion, which are difficult to evaluate from an experimental approach, are clearly revealed by numerical results. The authors show that, when non-Newtonian properties are weak, it is computationally shown that results are dominated by zero shear-rate viscosity. Moreover, they discuss the modified Reynolds and Morton numbers in order to more exactly describe the motion of a freely-rising drop or bubble in shear-thinning fluid systems.

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