Investigation of Mixing in Shear Thinning Fluids Using Computational Fluid Dynamics.
[Book]
Farhad Ein-Mozaffari
INTECH Open Access Publisher
2010
This chapter presented the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) along with stat-of-the-art experimental techniques of Ultrasonic Doppler Velocimetry (UDV), and Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) to capture the mixing of shear-thinning fluids with yield stress. The mathematical underpinnings of the CFD approach, and the experimental methods were elaborated. To demonstrate the utility of CFD, we included the results of relevant investigations juxtaposing the CFD simulations against the experimental tests of mixing the shear thinning fluids.