Yielding to stress: recent developments in viscoplastic fluid mechanics

NJ Balmforth, IA Frigaard… - Annual review of fluid …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
The archetypal feature of a viscoplastic fluid is its yield stress: If the material is not sufficiently
stressed, it behaves like a solid, but once the yield stress is exceeded, the material flows like …

Carbomer microgels as model yield-stress fluids

Z Jaworski, T Spychaj, A Story, G Story - Reviews in Chemical …, 2022‏ - degruyter.com
The review presents current research results for Carbopol-based microgels as yield-stress
materials, covering three aspects: chemical, physical and rheological. Such a joint three …

Active mixing of complex fluids at the microscale

TJ Ober, D Foresti, JA Lewis - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
Mixing of complex fluids at low Reynolds number is fundamental for a broad range of
applications, including materials assembly, microfluidics, and biomedical devices. Of these …

CFD simulation of stirred tanks: Comparison of turbulence models. Part I: Radial flow impellers

JB Joshi, NK Nere, CV Rane, BN Murthy… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
A critical review of the published literature regarding the computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
modelling of single‐phase turbulent flow in stirred tank reactors is presented. In this part of …

[ספר][B] Advances in industrial mixing: a companion to the handbook of industrial mixing

SM Kresta, AW Etchells III, DS Dickey… - 2015‏ - books.google.com
Advances in Industrial Mixing is a companion volume and update to the Handbook of
Industrial Mixing. The second volume fills in gaps for a number of industries that were not …

[HTML][HTML] Biochemical engineering's grand adventure

HJ Noorman, JJ Heijnen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Building on the recent revolution in molecular biology, enabling a wealth of bio-product
innovations made from renewable feedstocks, the biotechnology field is in a transition phase …

Using electrical resistance tomography and computational fluid dynamics modeling to study the formation of cavern in the mixing of pseudoplastic fluids possessing …

L Pakzad, F Ein-Mozaffari, P Chan - Chemical Engineering Science, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) provides a non-intrusive technique to examine, in
three dimensions, the homogeneity and flow pattern inside the mixing tank. In this study, a 4 …

Reactive Processing of Thermoplastic Polymers: A Review of the Fundamental Aspects: This work is dedicated to Dr. Alain Michel for his retirement and in memory of …

P Cassagnau, V Bounor-Legaré… - International Polymer …, 2007‏ - degruyter.com
The review is devoted to the fundamental aspects of the reactive processing of thermoplastic
polymers. First of all, some reactive processing examples, including polymer grafting (vinyl …

Computational simulation of mixing flow of shear thinning non-Newtonian fluids with various impellers in a stirred tank

J Sossa-Echeverria, F Taghipour - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The main features of the flow generated by three axial flow impellers installed on the side of
cylindrical tanks filled with pseudoplastic solutions exhibiting yield stress were exposed …

Modifications in the Rushton turbine for mixing viscoplastic fluids

H Ameur - Journal of Food Engineering, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The mixing characteristics of complex non-Newtonian fluids in a cylindrical vessel without
baffles are determined in this paper. The working fluid has a shear thinning behavior with …