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University of Missouri--Columbia.

On the solution of external laminar free convection to power law fluids

Abstract

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"Pseudoplastic fluids (power law fluid index N [less than] 1), dilatant fluids (N>1), and even Newtonian fluids (N=1) are commonly called power laws fluids, because they show an empirical shear stress (T)-strain rate (relationship known as the power law where N and m are empirical constants characteristic of the fluid; miscalled the fluid consistency index. Equation (1.1) is also called the power model of Ostwald-de Waele-Nutting (1), or simply the Ostwald power model. It applies only to one-dimensional, incompressible flow in which is much larger than all the other elements instrain rate tensor. It should also be noted that all power law fluids have no yield stress and are time independent; in other words, the time dependency of the properties is very small and thus may be neglected in most applications. Typical flow curves for power law fluids are plotted in Fig. 1.1."--Introduction.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Mechanical engineering (MU)
Grantor dc:publisher
University of Missouri--Columbia.
Year dc:date.issued
1971

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Chen, Tommy Yih-Wen
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Miles, John B.

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Statement dc:rights
  • OpenAccess.
Language dc:language.iso
eng, English

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/98904

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Chen, Tommy Yih-Wen. On the solution of external laminar free convection to power law fluids. Doctoral thesis, University of Missouri--Columbia., 1971. https://hdl.handle.net/10355/98904