Flow between eccentric cylinders: a shear-extensional controllable flow
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Guoqiang Tian; Mengmeng Wang; Xiaolin Wang; Gang Jin
- Source
- The Korea-Australia Rheology Journal, 28(2), pp.139-148 May, 2016
- Subject
- 공학일반
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2093-7660
1226-119X
In this work the non-Newtonian fluid between eccentric cylinders is simulated with finite element method. The flow in the annular gap between the eccentric rotating cylinders was found to be a shear-extensional controllable flow. The influence of rotating speed, eccentricity as well as the radius ratio on the extensional flow in the vicinity of the minimum gap between the inner and outer cylinder was quantitatively investigated. It was found that both the strengths of shear flow and extensional flow could be adjusted by changing the rotating speed. In respect to extensional flow, it was also observed that the eccentricity and radius ratio exert significant influences on the ratio of extensional flow. And it should be noted that the ratio of extensional flow in the mix flow could be increased when increasing the eccentricity and the ratio of shear flow in the mix flow could be increased when increasing the radius ratio.