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Flow of non-Newtonian fluids over a confined baffle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

F. T. Pinho  and
J. H. Whitelaw
F. T. Pinho
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fluids Section, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
J. H. Whitelaw
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Fluids Section, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2BX, UK
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Abstract

Measurements of wall pressure, and mean and r.m.s. velocities of the confined flow about a disk of 50 % area blockage have been carried out for two Newtonian fluids and four concentrations of a shear-thinning weakly elastic polymer in aqueous solution encompassing a Reynolds-number range from 220 to 138000. The flows of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids were found to be increasingly dependent on Reynolds numbers below 50000, with a decrease in the length of the recirculation region and dampening of the normal Reynolds stresses. At Reynolds numbers less than 25000, the recirculation bubble lengthened and all turbulence components were suppressed with increased polymer concentration so that, at a Reynolds number of 8000, the maximum values of turbulent kinetic energy were 35 and 45% lower than that for water, with 0.2% and 0.4% solutions of the polymer. Non-Newtonian effects were found to be important in regions of low local strain rates in low-Reynolds-number flows, especially inside the recirculation bubble and close to the shear layer, and are represented by both an increase in viscous diffusion and a decrease in turbulent diffusion to, respectively, 6% and 18% of the largest term of the momentum balance with a 0.4 % polymer solution at a Reynolds number of 7700. The asymmetry and unsteadiness of the flow at Reynolds numbers between 400 and 6000 is shown to be an aerodynamic effect which increases in range and amplitude with the more concentrated polymer solutions.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 226 , May 1991 , pp. 475 - 496
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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