Review of the secondary flows of complex fluids
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Subtitle: Review of the secondary flows of complex fluids
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2003
Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures (0889-9746)
Start page: 1843
End page: 1854
Number of pages: 12
ISSN: 0889-9746
URL: file:///C:/Users/kethmoloi/Downloads/ReviewoftheSecondaryFlowsofComplexFluids.pdf
Languages: English-United States (EN-US)
Abstract
A survey of secondary flows of viscoelastic liquids in straight tubes is given including recent work pointing at striking analogies with transversal deformations associated with the simple shearing of solid materials. The importance and implications of secondary flows of viscoelastic fluids in heat transfer enhancement are explored together with the difficulties in detecting weak secondary flows (dilute, weakly viscoelastic solutions) in a laboratory setting. Recent new work by the author and colleagues which explores for the first time the structure of the secondary flow field in the pulsating flow of a constitutively nonlinear simple fluid in straight tubes of arbitrary cross-sections is summarized. Arbitrary conduit contours are obtained through a novel approach to the concept of domain perturbation. Time averaged, mean secondary flow streamline contours are presented for the first time for triangular, square and hexagonal pipes.
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