A Note on the Orientation of Symmetric Rigid Bodies Sedimenting in a Power-Law Fluid

Authors

Ashuwin Vaidya, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Journal / Book Title

Appied Mathematics Letters

Abstract

We study the terminal orientation of symmetric bodies translating in a quiescent liquid modeled by the power-law fluid. We are able to show by invoking the symmetries of the sedimenting body and the Stokes flow field that at small Reynolds numbers, the competition of inertial and shear-thinning (or shear-thickening) contributions to the torque does not cause the tilt angle that is observed in experiments performed on viscoelastic liquids with shear-thinning properties.

Comments

This article is Open Access under an Elsevier User License.

DOI

10.1016/j.aml.2005.02.019

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Vaidya, Ashuwin, "A Note on the Orientation of Symmetric Rigid Bodies Sedimenting in a Power-Law Fluid" (2005). Department of Mathematics Facuty Scholarship and Creative Works. 34.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/mathsci-facpubs/34

Published Citation

Vaidya, A. (2005). A note on the orientation of symmetric rigid bodies sedimenting in a power-law fluid. Applied Mathematics Letters, 18(12), 1332-1338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aml.2005.02.019