NUMERICAL COMPUTATION OF PRESSURE GRADIENT FOR THE FLOW OF POWER-LAW FLUID IN ANNULUS WITH INNER CYLINDER EXECUTING A PLANETARY MOTION

With the governing equations for the flow of the power-law fluid in annulus with the inner cylinder executing a planetary motion being transformed by using the undetermined coefficient method, the formula of pressure gradient for this flow under the given flow rate and the relevant numerical calculation method are given in this article. Through the experiments on the flow of Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide (HPAM) aqueous solution which can be regarded as a power-law fluid, the calculated results of the pressure gradient values are compared with measured data, the mean relative error between them is smaller than 5%, which verifies the results presented in this article.