SEDIMENTATION OF PARTICLES IN NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS |
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| Authors: | YOSHINORI KAWASE JAROMIR J ULBRECHT |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Chemical Engineering , State University of New York , Buffalo, New York, 14260 |
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| Abstract: | The influence of non-Newtonian flow behavior on sedimentation velocity of particles is investigated using an approximate solution for the motion of an assemblage of solid spheres presented previously by the authors. It is theoretically predicted that the pseudoplaslicity decreases the sedimentation velocity and its reduction is pronounced at large voidage. The present theory is discussed using the available empirical correlations. |
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| Keywords: | Thermal convection Horizontal layer Porous layer Non-linear |
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