NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID DYNAMICS

Paper Code: 
MAT143 C
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Unit I: 
I
Simple shear, Classification of material, Classification of fluid behavior: Newtonian fluid, Non-Newtonian fluids, Time independent Non-Newtonian fluids, Time dependent Non-Newtonian fluids, Viscoelastic fluids.
 
 
Unit II: 
II
Normal stress effects (Weissenberg effect, Merrington effect, Reverse circulation etc.), Normal stress material functions, Interpretation of a tangential annular flow experiment and axial annular flow experiment, Extrudate Swell. 
 
Unit III: 
III
Shear flow: Kinematics and classification, Kinematics of steady tube flow, Steady tangential annular flow.
 
Unit IV: 
IV
Unidirectional shear flows, Form of the stress tensor, Steady shear flow material functions. 
 
Unit V: 
V
Unidirectional unsteady shear flow material functions, Measurement of viscosity and normal stress coefficient in Cone and plate instrument.
 
Essential Readings: 
  • R.K. Rathy, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co., 1976. 
  • F. Chorlton, Textbook of Fluid Dynamics, CBS Publishers, Delhi.2004. 
  • L. D. Landau and E.N. Lipschitz, Fluid Mechanics, Pergamon Press, London, 1985.
  • Irgens, Fridtjov, Rheology and Non- Newtonian Fluids, Springer International Publishing,2014.
  • Giovanni Astarita and G. Marrucci, Principles of Non – Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, McGraw Hill, 1974.
  • M.D. Raisinghania, Fluid Dynamics, S. Chand, 2013.
  • Shanti Swarup, Fluid Dynamics, Krishna Prakashan, Meerut, 2010.
  • Constantine Pozrikidis, Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Oxford University press, 2011.
  • A.R. Paterson, A Frist Course in Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • William Graebel, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Academic Press, 2007
 
 
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