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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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Jeffery orbits in shear-thinning fluids [PDF]
Physics of Fluids, 2019 We investigate the dynamics of a prolate spheroid in a shear flow of a shear-thinning Carreau fluid. The motion of a prolate particle is developed analytically for asymptotically weak shear thinning and then integrated numerically.
Arman Abtahi, Gwynn J. Elfring
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Shear Thinning and Hydrodynamic Friction of Viscosity Modifier-Containing Oils. Part I: Shear Thinning Behaviour [PDF]
Tribology Letters, 2018 Viscosity versus shear rate curves have been measured up to 107 s−1 for a range of VM solutions and fully formulated oils of known composition at several temperatures.
N. Marx +3 more
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Shear-thinning and shear-thickening emulsions in shear flows [PDF]
, 2021 We study the rheology of a two-fluid emulsion in semi-concentrated conditions; the solute is Newtonian while the solvent an inelastic power law fluid.
M. Rosti, S. Takagi
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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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The effect of particle geometry on squirming through a shear-thinning fluid
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 Biological and artificial microswimmers often encounter fluid media with non-Newtonian rheological properties. In particular, many biological fluids such as blood and mucus are shear-thinning.
B. van Gogh +3 more
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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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Shear-thinning mediation of elasto-inertial Taylor–Couette flow
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 We study the shear-thinning mediation of elasto-inertial transitions in Taylor–Couette flow of viscoelastic polymer solutions. Two types of high molecular weight polymers are used at various concentrations and in water–glycerol solvents of various ...
T. Lacassagne, N. Cagney, S. Balabani
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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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