A numerical study of the rheological properties of suspensions of rigid, non-Brownian fibres

DOI10.1017/S0022112096008889zbMath0894.76006MaRDI QIDQ4358983

Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Michael B. MacKaplow

Publication date: 14 December 1997

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

integral equations; slender-body theory; interfibre hydrodynamic interactions; periodically extended box; semidilute regime; shear viscosity data; volume-averaged stress tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76A99: Foundations, constitutive equations, rheology, hydrodynamical models of non-fluid phenomena

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