Sinusoidal oscillatory flow around a circular cylinder is simulated to study the periodic streaming in three flow regimes under the low KC and low  number conditions. The first regime of periodic streaming is featured by V-shape jet-like streams towards a fix direction. In the second regime, the V-shaped streams also exist, but the V-shape switches direction with a secondary flow period. The t...

Ceramic powder (zirconia) was mixed with binder consisting polypropylene, paraffin and stearic acid in elastic extruder. Steady and oscillatory shear flow properties of these materials in the molten state were measured on a cone-plate rheometer; parallel superposed steady and oscillatory shear flow experiments were also carried out. Moreover, flow properties at high shear rates were measured on...

We numerically investigate the pulsatile flow and heat transfer of a micropolar fluid through a Darcy-Forchhmeir porous channel in the presence of wall transpiration. We use the central difference approximations for the spatial derivatives, whereas the time integration has been performed by employing the three steps explicit Runge-Kutta method to obtain the numerical solution. It i...

The rheology of solvent-filled polymer brushes under steady and oscillatory shear is studied by Brownian dynamics simulation. The flow field is solved self-consistently with the polymer dynamics. We find that under steady flow the brushes are shear thinning in both normal forces and shear viscosity. During oscillatory flow, extreme shear thickening occurs when the ratio of the Weissenberg numbe...

We study the stability of a planar solid-melt boundary during directional solidification of a binary alloy when the solid is being periodically vibrated in the direction parallel to the boundary (or equivalently, under a far field uniform and oscillatory flow parallel to the planar boundary). The analysis is motivated by directional solidification experiments under the low level residual accele...

The mechanism of platelet thrombus growth on an artificial surface is incompletely understood. While glycoprotein (GP)Ib and GPIIb/IIIa are required for normal attachment and thrombus formation on subendothelium, their roles in platelet deposition to artificial surfaces remain unclear. Using selected platelet inhibitors (aspirin [ASA], low molecular weight dextran, monoclonal antibodies 10E5 [v...

The purpose of this paper is to present an indirect boundary integral method for the oscillatory Stokes flow provided by the translational oscillations of two rigid spheres in an incompressible Newtonian fluid of infinite expanse. 1. Introduction. The study of oscillatory Stokes flows has a key role in the understanding of the biomechanics of blood flow, the Brownian motion, the motion of swimm...

A series of time-dependent three-dimensional 3D computations of a lid-driven flow in a cube with no-slip boundaries is performed to find the critical Reynolds number corresponding to the steady-oscillatory transition. The computations are done in a fully coupled pressure-velocity formulation on 1043, 1523, and 2003 stretched grids. Grid-independence of the results is established. It is found th...

Bone tissue engineering provided a promising approach for treatment of large bone defects resulting from maladies such as birth defects, trauma, or tumor resection. In vitro culture of a porous scaffold seeded with osteoprogenitor cells may enhance its bone regeneration potential. In this chapter, we describe the design of a novel perfusion bioreactor system with oscillatory flow for cultivatin...