This paper proposes a computational approach to debris flow model. In recent years, the theoretical activity on the classical Herschel-Bulkley model (1926) has been very intense, but it was in the early 80s that the opportunity to explore the computational model has enabled considerable progress in identifying the subclasses of applicability of different sets of boundary conditions and their ap...

An understanding of sludge rheology during anaerobic digestion can improve digester performance, particularly with regards to mixing. However, the “black box” nature of digesters limits the knowledge on sludge flow behaviour, once it enters the digester. A study on the flow properties (i.e. apparent viscosity and yield stress) as well as the yielding and restructuring behaviour of primary, seco...

This paper presents a new family of semi-implicit hybrid finite volume/finite element schemes on edge-based staggered meshes for the numerical solution incompressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) equations in combination with k?? turbulence model. The rheology calculating laminar viscosity coefficient under consideration this work is one non-Newtonian Herschel–Bulkley (power-law) flui...

The soft-disk model previously developed and applied by Durian [D. J. Durian, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4780 (1995)] is brought to bear on problems of foam rheology of longstanding and current interest, using two-dimensional systems. The questions at issue include the origin of the Herschel-Bulkley relation, normal stress effects (dilatancy), and localization in the presence of wall drag. We show th...

The concept of occupationalther­ apy as a "science of adaptive responses," as proposed by King in her 7978 Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lecture, is explored and expanded on in this article. The authors pos­ tulate an adaptation continuum consIsting of homeostatzc reac­ tions, adaptive responses, adaptIVe skills, and adaptive patterns-a continuum that places the adap­ tive response in a sequential and ...

Direct numerical simulation of the weakly turbulent flow of non-Newtonian fluids is undertaken for two different generalised Newtonian rheology models using a spectral element--Fourier method. Results for a power law (shearthinning) rheology agree well with experimentally determined logarithmic layer correlations and with other previously published experimental work. As the flow index becomes s...

The aim of the work is a description of the rheological behaviour of thickened sewage sludge. The sample of thickened sludge was collected from the wastewater treatment plant, where pressure flotation unit is used for a process of thickening. The value of dry matter of collected sample was 3.52%. Subsequently the sample was diluted and the rheological properties of individual samples were obtai...

Using fast confocal microscopy we image the three-dimensional dynamics of particles in a yielded hard-sphere colloidal glass under steady shear. The structural relaxation, observed in regions with uniform shear, is nearly isotropic but is distinctly different from that of quiescent metastable colloidal fluids. The inverse relaxation time tau(alpha)(-1) and diffusion constant D, as functions of ...