Density-Dependent Incompressible Fluids with Non-Newtonian Viscosity

Incompressible laminar flow - newtonian and non-newtonian fluids

The problems of incompressible flows dominate a large part of the fluid mechanics scene. For this reason, they are given special attention in this book and we devote two chapters to this subject. In the present chapter we deal with various steadystate and transient situations in which the flow is forced by appropriate pressure gradients and boundary forces. In the next chapter we shall consider...

Shape Sensitivity Analysis of Incompressible Non-Newtonian Fluids

We study the shape differentiability of a cost function for the steady flow of an incompressible viscous fluid of power-law type. The fluid is confined to a bounded planar domain surrounding an obstacle. For smooth perturbations of the shape of the obstacle we express the shape gradient of the cost function which can be subsequently used to improve the initial design.

Well-posedness for density-dependent incompressible fluids with non-Lipschitz velocity

This paper is dedicated to the study of the initial value problem for density dependent incompressible viscous fluids in R with N ≥ 2. We address the question of well-posedness for large data having critical Besov regularity and we aim at stating well-posedness in functional spaces as close as possible to the ones imposed in the incompressible Navier Stokes system by Cannone, Meyer and Planchon...

Viscosity effects in foam drainage: Newtonian and non-newtonian foaming fluids.

We have studied the drainage of foams made from Newtonian and non-Newtonian solutions of different viscosities. Forced-drainage experiments first show that the behavior of Newtonian solutions and of shear-thinning ones (foaming solutions containing either Carbopol or Xanthan) are identical, provided one considers the actual viscosity corresponding to the shear rate found inside the foam. Second...

Non-newtonian Fluids