Elasto-Inertial Focusing Mechanisms of Particles in Shear-Thinning Viscoelastic Fluid in Rectangular Microchannels [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 Growth of the microfluidics field has triggered numerous advances in focusing and separating microparticles, with such systems rapidly finding applications in biomedical, chemical, and environmental fields.
Mohammad Moein Naderi +4 more
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Thrifty swimming with shear-thinning [PDF]
, 2018 Microscale propulsion is integral to numerous biomedical systems, for example biofilm formation and human reproduction, where the surrounding fluids comprise suspensions of polymers.
Gagnon, David A. +1 more
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Swimming efficiency in a shear-thinning fluid [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2017 Micro-organisms expend energy moving through complex media. While propulsion speed is an important property of locomotion, efficiency is another factor that may determine the swimming gait adopted by a micro-organism in order to locomote in an ...
Nganguia, Herve +2 more
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Particle settling in a shear-thinning, viscoelastic fluid in the presence of wall effects [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe settling of particles in fluids is a widespread phenomenon and commonly involves accounting for the effects of walls. Particle settling and wall effects are well understood for Newtonian fluids but the consequences of non-Newtonian fluid properties ...
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Flagellum Pumping Efficiency in Shear-Thinning Viscoelastic Fluids. [PDF]
J Fluid MechMicroorganism motility often takes place within complex, viscoelastic fluid environments, e.g. sperm in cervicovaginal mucus and bacteria in biofilms. In such complex fluids, strains and stresses generated by the microorganism are stored and relax across a spectrum of length and time scales and the complex fluid can be driven out of its linear response
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Primary atomization of shear-thinning liquid jets: a direct numerical simulation study [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUsing direct numerical simulation, the primary atomization of shear-thinning liquid jets into stagnant gas is investigated. Starting from a Newtonian configuration with material properties approximately corresponding to a Diesel injection, two ...
Marianne Abdelsayed +3 more
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The Rheology behavior of Aramid and Cellulose Nanowhisker Suspensions [PDF]
Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 2022 The flow responses of aramid and cellulose nanowhisker (fibrids) or CNCs (cellulose nanocrystal) suspended in a sulfuric acid and water respect at loadings of about 17% weight fraction was determined in transient shear flow. The effect of temperature and
Amir Kaveh +4 more
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Numerical simulations of blood cell flow in non-Newtonian fluid [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2020 We investigated how non-Newtonian viscosity behavior affects the flow characteristics of blood cells. Our findings offer insight about how shear thinning affects the dispersion of liposome-encapsulated hemoglobin and red blood cells in blood. The lattice
Shitara Kazuhiro, Hyakutake Toru
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Analysis of the Shear-Thinning Viscosity Behavior of the Johnson–Segalman Viscoelastic Fluids
Fluids, 2022 This paper presents a numerical comparison of viscoelastic shear-thinning fluid flow using a generalized Oldroyd-B model and Johnson–Segalman model under various settings. Results for the standard shear-thinning generalization of Oldroyd-B model are used
Tomáš Bodnár, Adélia Sequeira
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Effect of Shear-Thinning Property on the Energy Performance and Flow Field of an Axial Flow Pump
Energies, 2022 In the chemical and petroleum industry, the axial flow pump is widely used for the circulation pipeline system, and most of the transportation mediums are the shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids.
Weihua Sun, Zhiyi Yu, Wenwu Zhang
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