Abstract Mixing and homogenization in anaerobic digesters are affected by the flow curve of sludge. The aim this study is to mathematically express dense anaerobically digested sludge behaving as thixotropic pseudoplastic fluids. Time-dependent changes two parameters, i.e., consistency index ( µ p ) n ), shear modeled using a second-order kinetic equation with coefficient that includes power fu...

The effects of either cooking temperature (45, 80, and 100 °C) or inclusion of seed particles on the dynamic-mechanical and sensorial properties of value-added Crimson seedless, Black Pearl, or Baresana grape-based smoothies were studied. The inclusion of seed particles resulted in significant increases of the phenolic content, both in Black Pearl and Baresana, but it did not affect in a negati...

This paper investigates the natural convection heat transfer performance in a complex-wavy-wall cavity filled with power-law fluid. In performing the simulations, the continuity, Cauchy momentum and energy equations are solved subject to the Boussinesq approximation using a finite volume method. The simulations focus specifically on the effects of the flow behavior index in the power-law model ...

The procedure usually employed for specifying a set of hydrocyclones used in Newtonian fluidsolid separation processes can be extended to the case of non-Newtonian fluids. The apparent viscosity, μapp, is the link between the two cases, and can be evaluated from the knowledge of the shear stress function, S, and the characteristic rate of shear, λ*. In order to verify the validity of this, expe...

Mixing is a common process in food industry, and in particular it is interesting to develop optimal mixers in order maximize fluid mixing and minimize energy consumption by reducing the viscous dissipation effects. Although many studies and results had been presented in literature for both batch and static mixers (Rauline et al. 2000 and Mutsakis et al. 1986 for a review) the lack of a develope...

have been extensively studied. Various existence and uniqueness results are given in [1], [2], and [3], to name a few. More recently, in [4], it is shown that by certain transformations the boundary layer equations for the class of non-Newtonian uids named pseudoplastic can be generalized in the above form for the ODE case n = 1. Under this physical interpretation the above equation, considered...